\NormalFont\ShortTitle{2 Chronicles}
{\MT The Second Book of Chronicles

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon
the
son
of
David
was
strengthened
in
his
kingdom,
and
the
Lord
his
God
was
with
him,
and
magnified
him
to
a
high degree.
\VS{2}And
Solomon
gave
orders
to
all
Israel,
to
the
captains
of
thousands,
and
of
hundreds,
and
to
the
rulers,
and
to
the
judges
of
all
Israel,
and
the
heads
of
the
families:
\VS{3}And
he
went
with
all
the multitude
to
the
high
place
of Gabaon,
where
was
the
tabernacle
of
the covenant
of
the
Lord,
which
Moses
the
servant
of
God
made,
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{4}For
David
had
brought
the
ark
of
God
from Cariathiarim
to
the
place, which
he
had
prepared
for
it,
and where
he
had
pitched
a
tabernacle
for
it,
that
is,
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}And
the
altar
of
brass,
which Beseleel
the
son
of
Uri
the
son
of
Hur
had
made,
was
there
before
the
tabernacle
of
the
Lord:
and
Solomon
and
all
the
assembly
sought
it:
\VS{6}And
Solomon
went
up thither
to
the brazen
altar,
before
the
tabernacle
of
the covenant
of
the
Lord,
and
offered
up
on
it
a
thousand victims.
\VS{7}And
behold
that
night
God
appeared
to
him,
saying:
Ask
what thou wilt
that
I
should
give thee.
\VS{8}And
Solomon
said
to
God: Thou hast shewn
great
kindness
to
my
father
David:
and hast
made
me
king
in
his
stead.
\VS{9}Now
therefore,
O
Lord
God,
let thy
word
be
fulfilled,
which thou hast
promised
to
David
my
father:
for thou hast made
me
king
over thy
great
people,
which
is
as innumerable
as
the
dust
of
the
earth.
\VS{10}Give
me
wisdom
and
knowledge
that
I
may
come
in
and
go
out
before thy
people:
for
who
can worthily
judge
this thy
people,
which
is
so
great?
\VS{11}And
God
said
to
Solomon:
Because
this choice hath pleased thy
heart,
and thou hast
not
asked
riches,
and
wealth,
and
glory,
nor
the
lives
of
them
that
hate thee,
nor
many
days
of
life:
but hast
asked
wisdom
and
knowledge,
to
be able
to
judge
my
people,
over
which
I
have
made thee
king,
\VS{12}Wisdom
and
knowledge
are
granted
to thee:
and
I
will
give thee
riches,
and
wealth,
and
glory,
so
that
none
of
the
kings
before thee,
nor
after thee,
shall
be
like thee.
\VS{13}Then
Solomon
came
from
the
high
place
of Gabaon
to
Jerusalem
before
the
tabernacle
of
the covenant,
and
reigned
over
Israel.
\VS{14}And
he
gathered
to himself
chariots
and
horsemen,
and
he
had
a
thousand
four
hundred
chariots,
and
twelve
thousand
horsemen:
and
he
placed
them
in
the
cities
of
the
chariots,
and
with
the
king
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}And
the
king
made
silver
and
gold
to
be
in
Jerusalem
as
stones,
and
cedar
trees
as
sycamores,
which grow
in
the plains
in
great
multitude.
\VS{16}And
there
were
horses
brought
him
from
Egypt,
and
from Coa
by
the
king’s
merchants,
who went,
and bought
at
a
price,
\VS{17}A
chariot
of four
horses
for
six
hundred pieces
of
silver,
and
a
horse
for
a
hundred
and
fifty:
in
like
manner market
was
made
in
all
the kingdoms
of
the Hethites,
and
of
the
kings
of
Syria.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon determined
to build
a house
to
the name
of
the Lord,
and
a palace
for
himself.
\VS{2}And
he numbered
out seventy thousand
men
to bear burdens,
and eighty thousand
to hew stones
in
the mountains,
and three thousand six hundred
to oversee
them.
\VS{3}He sent
also
to Hiram
king
of Tyre, saying:
As thou didst
with David
my father,
and didst send
him cedars,
to
build
him
a
house,
in
which
he dwelt:
\VS{4}So
do
with
me
that
I
may
build
a
house
to
the name
of
the Lord
my
God,
to dedicate
it
to burn incense
before
him,
and
to perfume
with aromatical spices,
and
for
the continual setting forth
of bread,
and
for
the holocausts, morning
and evening,
and
on
the sabbaths,
and
on
the new moons,
and
the solemnities
of
the Lord
our
God
for ever,
which
are commanded
for Israel.
\VS{5}For
the
house
which
I desire
to
build,
is great:
for
our
God
is great
above all gods.
\VS{6}Who
then
can
be able
to build
him
a worthy house?
if heaven,
and
the heavens
of heavens cannot contain
him:
who am
I
that
I
should
be able
to build
him
a house?
but
to
this end only,
that incense
may
be burnt
before
him.
\VS{7}Send
me
therefore
a
skillful man,
that knoweth
how
to work
in gold,
and
in silver,
in brass,
and
in iron,
in purple,
in scarlet
and
in blue,
and
that hath skill
in engraving,
with
the artificers,
which
I
have
with
me
in Judea
and Jerusalem,
whom
David
my father
provided.
\VS{8}Send
me
also cedars,
and fir
trees,
and pine
trees
from Libanus:
for
I know
that thy servants
are skillful
in cutting
timber
in Libanus,
and
my servants
shall
be
with thy servants,
\VS{9}To
provide
me
timber
in abundance.
For
the house
which
I desire
to build,
is
to
be exceeding great,
and glorious.
\VS{10}And
I
will
give thy servants
the workmen
that
are
to cut
down
the trees,
for
their food twenty thousand cores
of wheat,
and
as many cores
of barley,
and twenty thousand measures
of wine,
and twenty thousand measures
of oil.
\VS{11}And Hiram
king
of Tyre
sent
a letter
to Solomon,
saying:
Because
the
Lord hath loved
his
people,
therefore
he hath
made thee
king
over
them.
\VS{12}And
he added, saying: Blessed
be
the Lord
the
God
of Israel,
who
made heaven
and earth,
who hath given
to king
David
a
wise
and
knowing
son, endued
with
understanding
and prudence,
to build
a house
to
the Lord,
and
a palace
for
himself.
\VS{13}I
therefore
have
sent thee
my
father Hiram,
a
wise
and
most
skillful
man,
\VS{14}The son
of
a woman
of
the daughters
of Dan,
whose father
was
a Tyrian,
who knoweth
how
to work
in gold,
and
in silver,
in brass,
and
in iron,
and
in marble,
and
in timber,
in purple
also,
and violet,
and silk
and scarlet:
and
who knoweth
to grave all sort
of graving,
and
to devise ingeniously all
that
there
may
be need
of
in
the work
with thy artificers,
and
with
the artificers
of
my
lord
David thy father.
\VS{15}The wheat
therefore,
and
the barley
and
the oil,
and
the wine,
which thou,
my lord, hast promised,
send
to thy servants.
\VS{16}And
we
will cut down
as many trees
out
of Libanus,
as thou shalt want,
and
will convey
them
in floats
by sea
to Joppe:
and
it
will
be thy part
to bring
them thence
to Jerusalem.
\VS{17}And Solomon
numbered
all
the proselytes
in
the land
of
Israel,
after
the numbering
which David
his father
had
made,
and
they
were found
a
hundred
and fifty-three
thousand
and
six
hundred.
\VS{18}And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Solomon
began
to
build
the
house
of
the
Lord
in
Jerusalem,
in
mount Moria,
which
had
been shewn
to
David
his
father,
in
the
place
which
David
had
prepared
in
the thrashingfloor
of
Ornan
the
Jebusite.
\VS{2}And
he
began
to
build
in
the
second
month,
in
the
fourth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{3}Now
these
are
the
foundations,
which
Solomon
laid,
to
build
the
house
of
God,
the
length
by
the
first
measure
sixty
cubits,
the
breadth
twenty
cubits.
\VS{4}And
the
porch
in
the
front,
which
was extended
in
length
according
to
the
measure
of
the
breadth
of
the
house,
twenty
cubits:
and
the
height
was
a
hundred
and
twenty
cubits:
and
he
overlaid
it
within
with
pure
gold.
\VS{5}And
the
greater
house
he ceiled
with deal boards,
and
overlaid
them
with plates
of fine
gold
throughout:
and
he graved
in
them
palm
trees,
and
like little
chains interlaced
with
one another.
\VS{6}He paved
also
the floor
of
the
temple
with most
precious marble,
of great
beauty.
\VS{7}And
the
gold
of
the plates
with
which
he
overlaid
the
house,
and
the
beams thereof,
and
the posts,
and
the
walls,
and
the
doors
was
of
the finest:
and
he graved cherubims
on
the
walls.
\VS{8}He
made
also
the
house
of
the
holy
of
holies:
the
length
of
it
according
to
the
breadth
of
the
temple,
twenty
cubits,
and
the
breadth
of
it
in
like manner
twenty
cubits:
and
he
overlaid
it
with plates
of
gold, amounting
to
about
six
hundred
talents.
\VS{9}He made also
nails
of
gold,
and
the
weight
of every nail
was
fifty sicles:
the
upper
chambers also he
overlaid
with
gold.
\VS{10}He
made
also
in
the
house
of
the
holy
of
holies
two cherubims
of image
work:
and
he
overlaid
them
with
gold.
\VS{11}The
wings
of
the cherubims
were extended
twenty
cubits,
so
that
one
wing
was
five
cubits
long,
and
reached
to
the
wall
of
the
house:
and
the
other
was also
five
cubits
long,
and
reached
to
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub.
\VS{12}In
like manner
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub,
was
five
cubits long,
and
reached
to
the
wall:
and
his
other
wing
was
five
cubits long,
and
touched
the
wing
of
the
other
cherub.
\VS{13}So
the
wings
of
the
two cherubims
were
spread forth,
and
were
extended
twenty
cubits:
and
they
stood
upright
on
their
feet,
and
their
faces
were
turned
toward
the
house without.
\VS{14}He
made
also
a
veil
of
violet,
purple, scarlet,
and silk:
and wrought
in
it cherubims.
\VS{15}He
made
also
before
the doors
of
the
temple
two
pillars,
which
were
five
and
thirty
cubits
high:
and
their chapiters
were
five
cubits.
\VS{16}He
made
also
as
it
were little
chains
in
the oracle,
and
he
put
them
on
the
heads
of
the
pillars:
and
a
hundred
pomegranates, which
he
put
between
the little
chains.
\VS{17}These
pillars
he put
at
the entrance
of
the
temple,
one
on
the
right
hand,
and
the
other
on
the
left:
that which
was
on
the
right
hand,
he
called
Jachin:
and
that
on
the
left
hand, Boot.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
made
also an
altar
of
brass
twenty
cubits
long,
and
twenty
cubits broad,
and
ten
cubits
high.
\VS{2}Also
a
molten
sea
of
ten
cubits
from
brim
to
brim,
round
in compass:
it
was
five
cubits
high,
and
a line
of
thirty
cubits compassed
it
round
about.
\VS{3}And
under
it
there
was
the
likeness
of
oxen,
and certain engravings
on
the
outside
of
ten
cubits compassed
the belly
of
the
sea,
as
it
were
with
two
rows.
\VS{4}And
the
oxen
were cast:
and
the
sea itself
was
set
upon
the
twelve
oxen,
three
of
which
looked
toward
the
north,
and
other
three
toward
the
west:
and
other
three
toward
the
south,
and
the
other
three
that
remained
toward
the
east,
and
the
sea
stood
upon
them:
and
the hinder
parts
of
the
oxen
were
inward
under
the
sea.
\VS{5}Now
the
thickness
of
it
was
a
handbreadth,
and
the
brim
of
it
was
like
the
brim
of
a
cup,
or
of
a crisped
lily:
and
it
held
three
thousand measures.
\VS{6}He
made
also
ten lavers:
and
he see
five
on
the
right
hand,
and
five
on
the
left,
to
wash
in
them all such
things
as
they
mere
to
offer
for holocausts:
but
the
sea
was
for
the
priests
to
wash
in.
\VS{7}And
he
made
ten
golden candlesticks,
according
to
the form which
they
were commanded
to
be
made
by:
and
he
set
them
in
the
temple,
five
on
the
right
hand,
and
five
on
the
left.
\VS{8}Moreover
also
ten
tables:
and
he
set
them
in
the
temple,
five
on
the
right
side,
and
five
on
the
left.
Also a
hundred
bowls
of
gold.
\VS{9}He
made
also
the
court
of
the
priests,
and
a
great hall,
and
doors
in
the hall, which
he covered
with
brass.
\VS{10}And
he
set
the
sea
on
the
right
side
over
against
the
east toward
the
south.
\VS{11}And
Hiram
made caldrons,
and fleshhooks,
and
bowls:
and
finished
all
the
king’s
work
in
the
house
of
God:
\VS{12}That
is
to say,
the
two
pillars,
and
the pommels,
and
the chapiters,
and
the
network,
to
cover
the chapiters
over
the pommels.
\VS{13}And
four
hundred
pomegranates,
and
two wreaths
of
network,
so
that
two
rows
of
pomegranates
were joined
to
each wreath,
to
cover
the pommels,
and
the chapiters
of
the
pillars.
\VS{14}He
made
also bases,
and lavers, which
he
set
upon
the bases:
\VS{15}One
sea,
and
twelve
oxen
under
the
sea;
\VS{16}And
the caldrons,
and fleshhooks,
and bowls.
All
the
vessels
did Hiram
his
father
make
for
Solomon
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
of
the finest
brass.
\VS{17}In
the
country near
the
Jordan did
the
king
cast them,
in
a clay
ground
between Sochot
and Saredatha.
\VS{18}And
the
multitude
of
vessels
was innumerable,
so
that
the
weight
of
the
brass
was
not
known.
\VS{19}And
Solomon
made
all
the
vessels
for
the
house
of
God,
and
the
golden
altar,
and
the
tables,
upon
which
were
the leaves
of proposition,
\VS{20}The candlesticks
also
of most
pure
gold
with
their
lamps
to give light
before
the oracle,
according
to
the
manner.
\VS{21}And certain
flowers,
and
lamps,
and
golden
tongs: all
were made
of
the finest
gold.
\VS{22}The vessels also
for
the perfumes,
and
the
censers,
and
the
bowls,
and
the mortars,
of
pure
gold.
And
he graved
the
doors
of
the
inner
temple,
that
is,
for
the
holy
of
holies:
and
the
doors
of
the
temple without
were
of
gold.
And thus all
the work
was finished
which Solomon made
in
the
house
of
the Lord.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
brought
in
all
the
things
that
David
his
father
had
vowed,
the
silver,
and
the
gold,
and
all
the
vessels
he
put among
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
God.
\VS{2}And
after
this
he
gathered
together
the ancients
of
Israel,
and
all
the
princes
of
the
tribes,
and
the
heads
of
the
families,
of
the
children
of
Israel
to
Jerusalem,
to
bring
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord
out
of
the
city
of
David,
which
is Sion.
\VS{3}And
all
the
men
of
Israel
came
to
the
king
in
the solemn
day
of
the
seventh
month.
\VS{4}And
when
all
the ancients
of
Israel
were
come,
the
Levites
took
up
the
ark,
\VS{5}And
brought
it
in, together
with
all
the
furniture
of
the
tabernacle.
And
the
priests
with
the
Levites
carried
the
vessels
of
the
sanctuary,
which
were
in
the
tabernacle.
\VS{6}And
king
Solomon
and
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
and
all
that
were
gathered
together
before
the
ark,
sacrificed rams,
and
oxen
without
number:
so
great
was
the
multitude
of
the victims.
\VS{7}And
the
priests
brought
in
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord
into
its
place,
that
is,
to
the oracle
of
the
temple,
into
the
holy
of
holies
under
the
wings
of
the cherubims:
\VS{8}So
that
the cherubims
spread
their
wings
over
the
place,
in which
the
ark
was set,
and
covered
the
ark
itself
and
its staves.
\VS{9}Now
the
ends
of
the staves wherewith
the
ark
was
carried,
because
they
were
some
thing
longer,
were
seen
before
the oracle:
but
if
a
man
were
a little
outward,
he
could
not
see
them.
So
the
ark
has
been
there unto
this
day.
\VS{10}And
there
was
nothing else
in
the
ark
but
the
two tables
which
Moses
put
there
at
Horeb
when
the
Lord
gave
the law
to
the
children
of
Israel,
at
their
coming
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{11}Now
when
the
priests
were
come
out
of
the
sanctuary, (for
all
the
priests
that could
be
found
there,
mere
sanctified:
and
as
yet
at
that
time
the courses
and orders
of
the ministries
were
not divided
among
them,)
\VS{12}Both
the
Levites
and
the
singing
men,
that
is,
both
they
that
were under
Asaph,
and
they
that
were under
Heman,
and
they
that
were under Idithun,
with
their
sons,
and
their
brethren,
clothed
with
fine
linen,
sounded
with
cymbals,
and psalteries,
and
harps,
standing
on
the
east
side
of
the
altar,
and
with
them
a
hundred
and
twenty
priests, sounding
with
trumpets.
\VS{13}So
when
they
all
sounded
together, both
with
trumpets,
and
voice,
and
cymbals,
and organs,
and
with divers
kind
of
musical
instruments,
and
lifted
up
their
voice
on
high:
the
sound
was
heard afar
off,
so
that
when
they
began
to
praise
the
Lord,
and
to
say:
Give glory
to
the
Lord
for
he
is
good,
for
his
mercy endureth
for
ever:
the
house
of
God
was
filled
with
a
cloud.
\VS{14}Nor
could
the
priests
stand
and
minister
by reason
of
the
cloud.
For
the
glory
of
the
Lord
had
filled
the
house
of
God.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Solomon
said:
The
Lord
promised
that
he
would
dwell
in
a
cloud.
\VS{2}But
I
have
built
a
house
to
his name,
that
he might
dwell
there
for
ever.
\VS{3}And
the
king
turned
his
face,
and
blessed
all
the multitude
of
Israel (for
all
the multitude
stood attentive)
and
he said:
\VS{4}Blessed
be
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
who hath
accomplished
in deed
that
which
he
spoke
to
David
my
father,
saying:
\VS{5}From
the
day
that
I
brought
my
people
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
I
chose
no
city
among
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
for
a
house
to
be
built
in
it
to
my
name:
neither
chose
I
any
other
man,
to
be
the
ruler
of
my
people
Israel.
\VS{6}But
I
chose
Jerusalem,
that
my
name
might
be
there:
and
I
chose
David
to set
him
over
my
people
Israel.
\VS{7}And whereas
David
my
father
had
a
mind
to
build
a
house
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
\VS{8}The
Lord
said
to
him: Forasmuch
as
it
was thy
will
to
build
a
house
to
my
name, thou hast
done
well
indeed
in
having
such
a
will:
\VS{9}But thou shalt
not
build
the
house,
but thy
son,
who
shall
come
out
of thy
loins,
he
shall
build
a
house
to
my
name.
\VS{10}The
Lord
therefore hath
accomplished
his
word
which
he
spoke:
and
I
am
risen
up
in
the
place
of
David
my
father,
and
sit
upon
the
throne
of
Israel,
as
the
Lord
promised:
and
have
built
a
house
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
God
of
Israel.
\VS{11}And
I
have
put
in
it
the
ark,
wherein
is
the
covenant
of
the
Lord,
which
he
made
with
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{12}And
he
stood
before
the
altar
of
the
I
Lord,
in
presence
of
all
the multitude
of
Israel,
and
stretched forth
his
hands.
\VS{13}For
Solomon
had
made
a brazen scaffold,
and
had
set
it
in
the
midst
of
the temple, which
was
five
cubits
long,
and
five
cubits
broad,
and
three
cubits
high:
and
he
stood
upon
it:
then kneeling
down
in
the
presence
of
all
the multitude
of
Israel,
and lifting
up
his
hands towards
heaven,
\VS{14}He
said:
O
Lord
God
of
Israel,
there
is
no
God
like thee
in
heaven
nor
in
earth:
who keepest
covenant
and
mercy
with thy
servants,
that
walk
before thee
with
all
their
hearts:
\VS{15}Who hast
performed
to thy
servant
David
my
father
all
that thou hast
promised
him:
and hast
accomplished
in fact,
what thou hast
spoken
with thy
mouth,
as
also
the
present
time proveth.
\VS{16}Now
then,
O
Lord
God
of
Israel, fulfill
to thy
servant
David
my
father, whatsoever thou hast
promised
him,
saying:
There
shall
not
fail thee
a
man
in
my
sight,
to
sit
upon
the
throne
of
Israel:
yet
so
that thy
children
take
heed
to
their
ways,
and
walk
in
my
law,
as thou hast
walked
before
me.
\VS{17}And
now,
Lord
God
of
Israel,
let thy
word
be
established
which thou hast
spoken
to thy
servant
David.
\VS{18}Is
it credible
then
that
God
should
dwell
with
men
on
the
earth?
If
heaven
and
the
heavens
of
heavens
do
not
contain thee,
how
much
less
this
house,
which
I
have
built?
\VS{19}But
to
this end only
it
is
made,
that thou mayest
regard
the
prayer
of thy
servant
and
his
supplication,
O
Lord
my
God:
and mayest
hear
the
prayers
which thy
servant poureth
out
before thee.
\VS{20}That thou mayest
open thy
eyes
upon
this
house
day
and
night,
upon
the
place
wherein thou hast
promised
that thy
name
should
be
called
upon,
\VS{21}And
that thou wouldst
hear
the prayer
which thy
servant prayeth
in
it: hearken
then
to
the prayers
of thy
servant,
and
of thy
people
Israel. Whosoever
shall
pray
in
this
place,
hear thou
from thy
dwelling
place,
that
is,
from
heaven,
and shew mercy.
\VS{22}If
any
man
sin
against
his neighbour,
and
come
to swear
against
him,
and bind
himself
with
a
curse
before
the
altar
in
this
house:
\VS{23}Then
hear thou
from
heaven,
and
do
justice
to thy
servants,
so
as
to
requite
the
wicked
by
making
his wickedness fall upon
his own
head,
and
to revenge
the
just, rewarding
him
according
to
his
justice.
\VS{24}If thy
people
Israel
be overcome
by
their
enemies, (for
they
will
sin
against thee,)
and
being
converted
shall
do penance,
and
call upon thy
name,
and
pray
to thee
in
this
place,
\VS{25}Then
hear thou
from
heaven,
and
forgive
the
sin
of thy
people
Israel,
and
bring
them
back
into
the
land,
which thou gavest
to
them,
and
their
fathers.
\VS{26}If
the
heavens
be
shut
up,
and
there
fall
no
rain
by reason
of
the
sins
of
the
people,
and
they
shall
pray
to thee
in
this
place,
and
confess
to thy
name,
and
be
converted
from
their
sins,
when thou dost
afflict
them,
\VS{27}Then
hear thou
from
heaven,
O Lord,
and
forgive
the
sins
of thy
servants
and
of thy
people
Israel,
and
teach
them
the
good
way,
in
which
they
may
walk:
and
give
rain
to thy
land
which thou hast
given
to thy
people
to possess.
\VS{28}If
a
famine arise
in
the
land,
or
a
pestilence
or blasting,
or
mildew,
or
locusts,
or caterpillars:
or
if
their
enemies waste
the
country,
and besiege
the
cities,
whatsoever scourge
or infirmity
shall
be
upon
them:
\VS{29}Then
if
any
of thy
people
Israel,
knowing
his
own scourge
and infirmity
shall
pray,
and
shall
spread
forth
his
hands
in
this
house,
\VS{30}Hear thou
from
heaven,
from thy high
dwelling
place,
and
forgive,
and
render
to
every
one
according
to
his
ways,
which thou knowest
him
to
have
in
his
heart: (for thou
only knowest
the
hearts
of
the
children
of
men:)
\VS{31}That
they
may
fear thee,
and
walk
in thy
ways
all
the
days
that
they
live
upon
the
face
of
the
land,
which thou hast
given
to
our
fathers.
\VS{32}If
the
stranger
also,
who
is
not
of thy
people
Israel,
come
from
a
far
country,
for
the
sake
of thy
great
name,
and thy
strong
hand,
and thy
stretched
out
arm,
and adore
in
this
place:
\VS{33}Hear thou
from
heaven thy firm
dwelling
place,
and
do
all
that
which
that
stranger
shall
call
upon thee
for:
that
all
the
people
of
the
earth
may
know thy
name,
and
may
fear thee,
as thy
people
Israel,
and
may
know,
that thy
name
is invoked
upon
this
house,
which
I
have
built.
\VS{34}If thy
people
go
out
to
war
against
their
enemies,
by
the
way
that thou shalt
send
them,
and adore thee towards
the
way
of
this
city,
which thou hast
chosen,
and
the
house
which
I
have
built
to thy
name:
\VS{35}Then
hear thou
from
heaven
their
prayers,
and
their
supplications,
and revenge
them.
\VS{36}And
if
they
sin
against thee (for
there
is
no
man
that sinneth
not)
and thou
be
angry
with
them,
and
deliver
them
up
to
their
enemies,
and
they
lead
them
away
captive
to
a
land
either
afar
off,
or
near
at
hand,
\VS{37}And
if
they
be
converted
in
their
heart
in
the
land
to
which
they
were
led
captive,
and
do penance,
and pray
to thee
in
the
land
of
their
captivity,
saying:
We
have
sinned,
we
have
done
wickedly,
we
have dealt unjustly:
\VS{38}And
return
to thee
with
all
their
heart,
and
with
all
their
soul,
in
the
land
of
their
captivity,
to
which
they
were
led
away,
and adore thee towards
the
way
of
their
own
land
which thou gavest
their
fathers,
and
of
the
city,
which thou hast
chosen,
and
the
house
which
I
have
built
to thy
name:
\VS{39}Then
hear thou
from
heaven,
that
is,
from thy firm
dwelling
place,
their
prayers,
and
do
judgment,
and
forgive thy
people,
although
they
have
sinned:
\VS{40}For thou art
my
God:
let thy
eyes,
I
beseech thee,
be
open,
and
let thy
ears
be
attentive
to
the
prayer,
that
is
made
in
this
place.
\VS{41}Now
therefore
arise,
O
Lord
God, into thy resting place, thou
and
the
ark
of thy
strength:
let thy
priests,
O
Lord
God,
put
on
salvation,
and thy saints
rejoice
in
good things.
\VS{42}O
Lord
God,
turn
not
away
the
face
of thy
anointed:
remember
the mercies
of
David thy
servant.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
Solomon
had
made
an
end
of
his prayer,
Are
came
down
from
heaven,
and
consumed
the holocausts
and
the victims:
and
the
majesty
of
the
Lord tilled
the
house.
\VS{2}Neither
could
the
priests
enter
into
the
temple
of
the
Lord,
because
the
majesty
of
the
Lord
had
filled
the
temple
of
the
Lord.
\VS{3}Moreover
all
the
children
of
Israel
saw
the
fire
coming
down,
and
the
glory
of
the
Lord
upon
the
house:
and falling
down
with
their
faces
to
the
ground,
upon
the stone
pavement,
they adored
and praised
the
Lord:
because
he
is
good,
because
his
mercy endureth
for
ever.
\VS{4}And
the
king
and
all
the
people
sacrificed victims
before
the
Lord.
\VS{5}And
king
Solomon
offered
a
sacrifice
of
twenty-two
thousand
oxen,
and
one
hundred
and
twenty
thousand rams:
and
the
king
and
all
the
people
dedicated
the
house
of
God.
\VS{6}And
the
priests
stood
in
their
offices:
and
the
Levites
with
the
instruments
of
music
of
the
Lord,
which
king
David
made
to
praise
the
Lord:
because
his
mercy endureth
for
ever,
singing
the
hymns
of
David
by
their ministry:
and
the
priests
sounded
with
trumpets
before
them,
and
all
Israel
stood.
\VS{7}Solomon
also
sanctified
the
middle
of
the
court
before
the
temple
of
the
Lord:
for
he offered
there
the holocausts,
and
the
fat
of
the
peace
offerings:
because
the brazen
altar,
which
he
had
made,
could
not
hold
the holocausts
and
the
sacrifices
and
the
fat:
\VS{8}And
Solomon
kept
the solemnity
at
that
time
seven
days,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
a
very
great
congregation,
from
the
entrance
of Emath
to
the torrent
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}And
he
made
on
the
eighth
day
a
solemn
assembly,
because
he
had
kept
the
dedication
of
the
altar
seven
days,
and
had
celebrated
the solemnity
seven
days.
\VS{10}So
on
the
three
and
twentieth
day
of
the
seventh
month
he
sent
away
the
people
to
their dwellings,
joyful
and
glad
for
the
good
that
the
Lord
had
done
to
David,
and
to
Solomon,
and
to
all
Israel
his
people.
\VS{11}And
Solomon
finished
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
king’s
house,
and
all
that
he
had designed
in
his
heart
to
do,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
his own
house,
and
he prospered.
\VS{12}And
the
Lord
appeared
to
him
by
night,
and
said:
I
have
heard thy
prayer,
and
I
have
chosen
this
place
to myself
for
a
house
of
sacrifice.
\VS{13}If
I
shut
up
heaven,
and
there
fall
no
rain,
or
if
I
give
orders,
and
command
the
locust
to
devour
the
land,
or
if
I
send
pestilence
among
my
people:
\VS{14}And
my
people,
upon
whom
my
name
is
called,
being
converted,
shall
make
supplication
to
me,
and
seek
out
my
face,
and
do penance
for
their
most
wicked
ways:
then
will
I
hear
from
heaven,
and
will
forgive
their
sins
and
will
heal
their
land.
\VS{15}My
eyes
also
shall
be
open,
and
my
ears
attentive
to
the
prayer
of
him
that
shall
pray
in
this
place.
\VS{16}For
I
have
chosen,
and
have
sanctified
this
place,
that
my
name
may
be
there
for
ever,
and
my
eyes
and
my
heart
may
remain
there
perpetually.
\VS{17}And
as
for thee,
if thou
walk
before
me,
as
David thy
father
walked,
and
do
according
to
all
that
I
have
commanded thee,
and
keep
my justices
and
my
judgments:
\VS{18}I
will
raise
up
the
throne
of thy
kingdom,
as
I
promised
to
David thy
father,
saying:
There
shall
not
fail thee
a
man
of thy stock
to
be
ruler
in
Israel.
\VS{19}But
if
you
turn
away,
and
forsake
my justices,
and
my
commandments
which
I
have
set
before
you,
and
shall
go
and
serve strange
gods,
and adore
them,
\VS{20}I
will
pluck
you
up
by
the
root
out
of
my
land
which
I
have
given
you:
and
this
house
which
I
have
sanctified
to
my
name,
I
will
cast
away
from
before
my
face,
and
will
make
it
a
byword,
and
an example
among
all
nations.
\VS{21}And
this
house
shall
be
for
a proverb
to
all
that
pass
by,
and
they
shall
be
astonished
and
say:
Why hath
the
Lord
done
thus
to
this
land,
and
to
this
house?
\VS{22}And
they
shall
answer:
Because
they forsook
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers,
who
brought
them
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
and
laid
hold
on strange
gods,
and adored
them,
and worshipped
them:
therefore
all
these evils
are
come
upon
them.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
at
the
end
of
twenty
years
after
Solomon
had
built
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
his
own
house:
\VS{2}He
built
the
cities
which Hiram
had
given
to
Solomon,
and
caused
the
children
of
Israel
to
dwell
there.
\VS{3}He went
also
into Emath Suba,
and possessed
it.
\VS{4}And
he
built Palmira
in
the
desert,
and
he
built
other strong
cities
in Emath.
\VS{5}And
he
built
Beth-horon
the
upper,
and
Beth-horon
the nether,
walled
cities
with Rates
and
bars
and locks.
\VS{6}Balaath
also
and
all
the strong
cities
that
were
Solomon’s,
and
all
the
cities
of
the
chariots,
and
the
cities
of
the
horsemen.
All
that
Solomon
had
a mind,
and
designed,
he
built
in
Jerusalem
and
in Libanus,
and
in
all
the
land
of
his dominion.
\VS{7}All
the
people
that
were
left
of
the Hethites,
and
the Amorrhites,
and
the Pherezites,
and
the Hevites,
and
the
Jebusites,
that
were
not
of
the stock
of
Israel:
\VS{8}Of
their
children,
and
of
the posterity,
whom
the
children
of
Israel
had
not slain,
Solomon
made
to
be
the tributaries, unto
this
day.
\VS{9}But
of
the
children
of
Israel
he
set
none
to serve
in
the king’s
works:
for
they
were
men
of
war,
and
chief
captains,
and
rulers
of
his
chariots
and
horsemen.
\VS{10}And all
the
chief
captains
of
king
Solomon’s
army
were
two
hundred
and
fifty,
who taught
the
people.
\VS{11}And
he removed
the
daughter
of Pharao
from
the
city
of
David,
to
the
house
which
he
had
built
for
her.
For
the
king
said:
My
wife
shall
not
dwell
in
the
house
of
David
king
of
Israel,
for
it
is sanctified:
because
the
ark
of
the
Lord
came
into
it.
\VS{12}Then
Solomon
offered holocausts
to
the
Lord
upon
the
altar
of
the
Lord
which
he
had
built
before
the
porch,
\VS{13}That
every
day an
offering might
be
made
on
it according
to
the ordinance
of
Moses,
in
the
sabbaths,
and
on
the
new
moons,
and
on
the
festival
days
three
times
a
year,
that
is
to
say,
in
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread,
and
in
the
feast
of
weeks,
and
in
the
feast
of tabernacles.
\VS{14}And
he
appointed
according
to
the
order
of
David
his
father
the
offices
of
the
priests
in
their ministries:
and
the
Levites
in
their
order
to give
praise,
and
minister
before
the
priests
according
to
the
duty
of
every
day:
and
the porters
in
their
divisions
by
gate
and
gate:
for
so
David
the
man
of
God
had
commanded.
\VS{15}And
the
priests
and
Levites
departed
not
from
the
king’s
commandments,
as
to
any
thing
that
he
had
commanded,
and
as
to
the keeping
of
the
treasures.
\VS{16}Solomon
had
all charges
prepared,
from
the
day
that
he founded
the
house
of
the
Lord,
until
the
day wherein
he
finished
it.
\VS{17}Then
Solomon
went
to Asiongaber,
and
to Ailath,
on
the coast
of
the Red
Sea, which
is
in
the
land
of
Edom.
\VS{18}And Hiram
sent
him
ships
by
the
hands
of
his
servants,
and
skillful mariners,
and
they
went
with
Solomon’s
servants
to
Ophir,
and
they
took thence
four
hundred
and
fifty
talents
of
gold,
and
brought
it
to
king
Solomon.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
the
queen
of Saba
heard
of
the
fame
of
Solomon,
she
came
to
try
him
with
hard
questions
at
Jerusalem,
with
great
riches,
and
camels,
which
carried
spices,
and
abundance
of
gold,
and
precious
stones.
And
when
she
was
come
to
Solomon,
she proposed
to
him
all
that
was
in
her
heart.
\VS{2}And
Solomon explained
to
her
all
that
she
proposed:
and
there
was
not
any
thing
that
he
did
not
make
clear unto
her.
\VS{3}And
when
she
had
seen
these
things,
to wit,
the
wisdom
of
Solomon,
and
the
house
which
he
had
built,
\VS{4}And
the meats
of
his
table,
and
the
dwelling
places
of
his
servants,
and
the
attendance
of
his
officers,
and
their apparel,
his cupbearers
also,
and
their
garments,
and
the victims
which
he
offered
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
there
was
no
more
spirit
in
her,
she
was
so astonished.
\VS{5}And
she
said
to
the
king:
The
word
is
true
which
I
heard
in
my
country
of thy virtues
and
wisdom.
\VS{6}I
did
not
believe
them
that
told
it,
until
I
came,
and
my
eyes
had
seen,
and
I
had proved
that scarce
one
half
of thy
wisdom
had
been
told
me: thou hast exceeded
the
same
with thy virtues.
\VS{7}Happy
are thy
men,
and
happy
are thy
servants,
who
stand
always
before thee,
and
hear thy
wisdom.
\VS{8}Blessed
be
the
Lord thy
God,
who hath
been
pleased
to
set thee
on
his
throne,
king
of
the
Lord thy
God.
Because
God loveth
Israel,
and
will preserve
them
for
ever:
therefore hath
he
made thee
king
over
them,
to
do
judgment
and
justice.
\VS{9}And
she
gave
to
the
king
a
hundred
and
twenty
talents
of
gold,
and
spices
in
great
abundance,
and
most
precious
stones:
there
were
no
such
spices
as
these
which
the
queen
of Saba
gave
to
king
Solomon.
\VS{10}And
the
servants
also
of
Hiram,
with
the
servants
of
Solomon,
brought
gold
from
Ophir,
and thyine
trees,
and most
precious
stones:
\VS{11}And
the
king
made
of
the thyine
trees stairs
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
the
king’s
house,
and
harps
and psalteries
for
the
singing
men:
never
were
there
seen
such
trees
in
the
land
of Juda.
\VS{12}And
king
Solomon
gave
to
the
queen
of Saba
all
that
she
desired,
and
that
she
asked,
and many more
things
than
she
brought
to
him:
so
she
returned,
and
went
to
her own
country
with
her
servants.
\VS{13}And
the
weight
of
the
gold,
that
was
brought
to
Solomon
every
year,
was
six
hundred
and sixty-six
talents
of
gold:
\VS{14}Beside
the sum which
the deputies
of divers
nations,
and
the
merchants
were accustomed
to
bring,
and
all
the
kings
of
Arabia,
and
the lords
of
the
lands,
who
I
brought
gold
and
silver
to
Solomon.
\VS{15}And
king
Solomon
made
two
hundred
golden spears,
of
the sum
of
six
hundred pieces
of
gold, which
went
to
every spear:
\VS{16}And
three
hundred
golden
shields
of
three
hundred pieces
of
gold,
which
went
to
the covering
of
every
shield:
and
the
king
put
them
in
the armoury,
which
was compassed
with
a wood.
\VS{17}The
king
also
made
a
great
throne
of
ivory,
and
overlaid
it
with
pure
gold.
\VS{18}And
six
steps
to go
up
to
the
throne,
and
a
footstool
of
gold,
and
two
arms
one
on
either
side,
and
two
lions
standing
by
the
arms:
\VS{19}Moreover
twelve
other little
lions
standing
upon
the
steps
on
both
sides:
there
was
not
such
a throne
in
any
kingdom.
\VS{20}And
all
the
vessels
of
the
king’s table
were
of
gold,
and
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
forest
of Libanus
were
of
the purest
gold.
For
no
account
was
made
of
silver
in
those
days.
\VS{21}For
the
king’s
ships
went
to Tharsis
with
the
servants
of Hiram,
once
in
three
years:
and
they
brought thence
gold
and
silver,
and
ivory,
and
apes,
and
peacocks.
\VS{22}And
Solomon
was
magnified above
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
for
riches
and glory.
\VS{23}And
all
the
kings
of
the
earth desired
to
see
the
face
of
Solomon,
that
they
might
hear
the
wisdom
which
God
had
given
in
his
heart.
\VS{24}And
every
year
they
brought
him
presents,
vessels
of
silver
and
of
gold,
and
garments,
and armour,
and
spices,
and
horses,
and
mules.
\VS{25}And
Solomon
had forty
thousand
horses
in
the stables,
and
twelve
thousand
chariots,
and
horsemen,
and
he
placed
them
in
the
cities
of
the
chariots,
and where
the
king
was
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}And
he exercised
authority
over
all
the
kings
from
the
river
Euphrates
to
the
land
of
the
Philistines,
and
to
the
borders
of
Egypt.
\VS{27}And
he
made
silver
as
plentiful
in
Jerusalem
as
stones:
and
cedars
as common
as
the
sycamores,
which grow
in
the plains.
\VS{28}And
horses
were
brought
to
him
out
of
Egypt,
and
out
of
all
countries.
\VS{29}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of
Solomon
first
and
last
are
written
in
the
words
of
Nathan
the
prophet,
and
in
the boobs
of Ahias
the Silonite,
and
in
the vision
of Addo
the
seer,
against
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat.
\VS{30}And
Solomon
reigned
in
Jerusalem
over
all
Israel
forty
years.
\VS{31}And
he
slept
with
his
fathers:
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David:
and Roboam
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Roboam
went
to Sichem:
for thither
all
Israel
were
assembled,
to
make
him
king.
\VS{2}And
when
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat,
who
was
in
Egypt, (for
he
was
fled thither
from
Solomon,)
heard
it, forthwith
he
returned.
\VS{3}And
they
sent
for
him,
and
he
came
with
all
Israel,
and
they
spoke
to Roboam,
saying:
\VS{4}Thy
father
oppressed
us
with
a most
grievous
yoke,
do thou govern
us
with
a
lighter
hand
than thy
father,
who
laid
upon
us
a
heavy
servitude,
and
ease some
thing
of
the
burden,
that
we
may
serve thee.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
them:
Come
to
me
again
after
three
days.
And
when
the
people
were
gone,
\VS{6}He
took
counsel
with
the ancients,
who
had
stood
before
his
father
Solomon,
while
he yet
lived,
saying:
What
counsel
give
you
to
me,
that
I
may
answer
the
people?
\VS{7}And
they
said
to
him:
If thou
please
this
people,
and soothe
them
with
kind
words,
they
will
be thy
servants
for
ever.
\VS{8}But
he forsook
the
counsel
of
the ancients,
and began
to treat
with
the
young
men,
that
had
been
brought
up
with
him,
and
were
in
his train.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
them:
What seemeth good
to
you?
or
what
shall
I
answer
this
people,
who
have
said
to
me:
Ease
the
yoke
which thy
father
laid
upon
us?
\VS{10}But
they
answered
as
young
men,
and
brought
up
with
him
in pleasures,
and
said:
Thus shalt thou
speak
to
the
people,
that
said
to thee: Thy
father
made
our
yoke
heavy, do thou
ease
it:
thus shalt thou
answer
them:
My
little
finger
is
thicker
than
the
loins
of
my
father.
\VS{11}My
father laid
upon
you
a
heavy
yoke,
and
I
will
add
more weight
to
it:
my
father beat
you
with scourges,
but
I
will beat
you
with
scorpions.
\VS{12}So
Jeroboam,
and
all
the
people
came
to Roboam
the
third
day,
as
he
commanded
them.
\VS{13}And
the
king
answered roughly,
leaving
the
counsel
of
the ancients.
\VS{14}And
he
spoke
according
to
the
advice
of
the
young
men:
My
father
laid
upon
you
a
heavy
yoke, which
I
will
make
heavier:
my
father beat
you
with scourges,
but
I
will beat
you
with
scorpions.
\VS{15}And
he condescended
not
to
the
people’s
requests:
for
it
was
the
will
of
God,
that
his
word
might
be
fulfilled
which
he
had
spoken
by
the
hand
of Ahias
the Silonite
to
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat.
\VS{16}And
all
the
people
upon
the
king’s
speaking roughly,
said
thus unto
him:
We
have
no part
in
David,
nor
inheritance
in
the
son
of Isai.
Return
to thy dwellings,
O
Israel,
and
do thou,
O
David, feed thy
own
house.
And
Israel
went
away
to
their dwellings.
\VS{17}But Roboam
reigned
over
the
children
of
Israel
that
dwelt
in
the
cities
of Juda.
\VS{18}And
king Roboam
sent Aduram,
who
was
over
the tributes,
and
the
children
of
Israel
stoned
him,
and
he
died:
and
king Roboam
made
haste
to gee
up
into
his
chariot,
and
fled
into
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}And
Israel
revolted
from
the
house
of
David unto
this
day.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Roboam
came
to
Jerusalem,
and called
together
all
the
house
of Juda
and
of
Benjamin,
a
hundred
and fourscore
thousand chosen
men
and
warriors,
to
fight
against
Israel,
and
to
bring
back
his
kingdom
to
him.
\VS{2}And
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Semeias
the
man
of
God,
saying:
\VS{3}Speak
to Roboam
the
son
of
Solomon
the
king
of Juda,
and
to
all
Israel,
in Juda
and
Benjamin:
\VS{4}Thus saith
the
Lord:
You
shall
not
go
up,
nor
fight
against
your
brethren:
let
every
man
return
to
his
own
house,
for
by
my
will
this
thing
has
been
done.
And
when
they
heard
the
word
of
the
Lord,
they
returned,
and
did
not
go
against
Jeroboam,
\VS{5}And Roboam
dwelt
in
Jerusalem,
and
built walled
cities
in Juda.
\VS{6}And
he
built
Bethlehem,
and
Etam,
and Thecue,
\VS{7}And Bethsur,
and Socho,
and Odollam,
\VS{8}And Geth,
and Maresa,
and
Ziph,
\VS{9}And Aduram,
and Lachis,
and Azecha,
\VS{10}Saraa
also,
and Aialon,
and
Hebron,
which
are
in Juda
and
Benjamin,
well fenced
cities.
\VS{11}And when
he
had enclosed
them
with walls,
he
put
in
them governors
and
storehouses
of provisions,
that
is,
of
oil
and
of
wine.
\VS{12}Moreover
in
every
city
he
made
an armoury
of
shields
and
spears,
and
he
fortified
them
with
great diligence,
and
he reigned
over Juda,
and
Benjamin,
\VS{13}And
the
priests
and
Levites,
that
were
in
all
Israel, came
to
him
out
of
all
their seats,
\VS{14}Leaving
their suburbs,
and
their
possessions,
and passing
over
to Juda,
and
Jerusalem,
because
Jeroboam
and
his
sons
had cast
them
off,
from executing
the priestly office
to
the
Lord.
\VS{15}And
he
made
to himself
priests
for
the
high
places,
and
for
the devils,
and
for
the
calves
which
he
had
made.
\VS{16}Moreover
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel, whosoever
gave
their
heart
to
seek
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
came
into
Jerusalem
to
sacrifice
their victims
before
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{17}And
they
strengthened
the
kingdom
of Juda,
and
established Roboam
the
son
of
Solomon
for
three
years:
for
they
walked
in
the
ways
of
David
and
of
Solomon, only
three
years.
\VS{18}And Roboam
took
to
wife
Mahalath,
the
daughter
of Jerimoth
the
son
of
David:
and
Abihail
the
daughter
of
Eliab
the
son
of Isai.
\VS{19}And
they
bore
him
sons Jehus,
and Somorias,
and Zoom.
\VS{20}And
after
her
he
married Maacha
the
daughter
of
Absalom,
who
bore
him Abia
and Ethai,
and
Ziza,
and Salomith.
\VS{21}And Roboam
loved Maacha
the
daughter
of
Absalom above
all
his
wives,
and
concubines:
for
he
had
married
eighteen
wives,
and threescore
concubines:
and
he
beget
eight
and
twenty
sons,
and threescore
daughters.
\VS{22}But
he put
at
the
head
of
them Abia
the
son
of Maacha
to
be
the
chief
ruler
over all
his
brethren:
for
he meant
to
make
him
king,
\VS{23}Because
he
was wiser
and mightier
than
all
his
sons,
and
in
all
the
countries
of Juda,
and
of
Benjamin,
and
in
all
the walled
cities:
and
he
gave
them
provisions
in
abundance,
and
he
sought
many
wives.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
the
kingdom
of Roboam
was strengthened
and fortified,
he forsook
the
law
of
the
Lord,
and
all
Israel
with
him.
\VS{2}And
in
the
fifth
year
of
the reign
of Roboam, Sesac
king
of
Egypt
came
up
against
Jerusalem (because
they
had sinned
against
the
Lord)
\VS{3}With twelve
hundred
chariots
and threescore
thousand
horsemen:
and
the
people
were
without
number
that
came
with
him
out
of
Egypt,
to wit,
Libyans,
and Troglodites,
and
Ethiopians.
\VS{4}And
he
took
the strongest
cities
in Juda,
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{5}And Semeias
the
prophet
came
to Roboam,
and
to
the
princes
of Juda,
that
were
gathered
together
in
Jerusalem, fleeing
from Sesac,
and
he
said
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
You
have
left
me,
and
I
have
left
you
in
the
hand
of Sesac.
\VS{6}And
the
princes
of
Israel,
and
the
king, being
in
a consternation,
said:
The
Lord
is
just.
\VS{7}And
when
the
Lord
saw
that
they
were
humbled,
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to Semeias,
saying:
Because
they
are
humbled,
I
will
not
destroy
them,
and
I
will
give
them
a
little help,
and
my
wrath
shall
not
fall
upon
Jerusalem
by
the
hand
of Sesac.
\VS{8}But
yet
they
shall
serve
him,
that
they
may
know
the difference between
my
service,
and
the
service
of
a
kingdom
of
the
earth.
\VS{9}So Sesac
king
of
Egypt departed
from
Jerusalem,
taking
away
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
of
the
king’s
house,
and
he
took
all
with
him,
and
the
golden
shields
that
Solomon
had
made,
\VS{10}Instead
of
which
the
king
made brazen ones,
and
delivered
them
to
the
captains
of
the shieldbearers,
who
guarded
the
entrance
of
the
palace.
\VS{11}And
when
the
king
entered
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
the shieldbearers
came
and
took
them,
and
brought
them
back
again
to
their armoury.
\VS{12}But
yet
because
they
were
humbled,
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
turned
away
from
them,
and
they
were
not utterly
destroyed:
for
even
in Juda
there
were
found
good works.
\VS{13}King Roboam
therefore
was
strengthened
in
Jerusalem,
and
reigned:
he
was
one
and
forty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
seventeen
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
city
which
the
Lord
chose
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
to
establish
his
name
there:
and
the
name
of
his
mother
was Naama
an
Ammonitess.
\VS{14}But
he
did
evil,
and
did
not
prepare
his
heart
to
seek
the
Lord.
\VS{15}Now
the
acts
of Roboam
first
and
last
are
written
in
the books
of Semeias
the
prophet,
and
of Addo
the
seer,
and diligently
recorded:
and
there
was
war
between Roboam
and
Jeroboam
all
their
days.
\VS{16}And Roboam
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
in
the
city
of
David.
And Abia
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
king
Jeroboam, Abia
reigned
over Juda.
\VS{2}Three
years
he
reigned
in
Jerusalem,
and
his
mother’s
name
was Michaia,
the
daughter
of
Uriel
of Gabaa:
and
there
was
war
between Abia
and
Jeroboam.
\VS{3}And
when Abia
had begun
battle,
and
had
with
him
four
hundred
thousand most
valiant
and chosen
men,
Jeroboam
put
his
army
in
array
against
him,
eight
hundred
thousand
men,
who
were
also chosen
and most
valiant
for
war.
\VS{4}And Abia
stood
upon
mount Semeron,
which
was
in
Ephraim,
and
said:
Hear
me,
O
Jeroboam,
and
all
Israel:
\VS{5}Do
you
not
know
that
the
Lord
God
of
Israel
gave
to
David
the
kingdom
over
Israel
for
ever,
to
him
and
to
his
sons
by
a
covenant
of
salt?
\VS{6}And
Jeroboam
the
son
of Nabat,
the
servant
of
Solomon
the
son
of
David,
rose
up:
and
rebelled
against
his
lord.
\VS{7}And
there
were
gathered
to
him vain
men,
and
children
of Belial:
and
they
prevailed
against Roboam
the
son
of
Solomon:
for Roboam
was unexperienced,
and
of
a fearful
heart,
and
could
not
resist
them.
\VS{8}And
now
you
say
that
you
are
able
to
withstand
the
kingdom
of
the
Lord,
which
he possesseth
by
the
sons
of
David,
and
you
have
a
great
multitude
of
people,
and
golden
calves,
which
Jeroboam hath
made
you
for
gods.
\VS{9}And
you
have
cast
out
the
priests
of
the
Lord,
the
sons
of
Aaron,
and
the
Levites:
and
you
have
made
you
priests,
like
all
the
nations
of
the
earth: whosoever cometh
and consecrateth
his
hand
with
a bullock
of
the
herd,
and
with
seven
rams,
is
made
a
priest
of
those
who
are
no
gods.
\VS{10}But
the
Lord
is
our
God, whom
we
forsake
not,
and
the
priests
who
minister
to
the
Lord
are
the
sons
of
Aaron,
and
the
Levites
are
in
their order.
\VS{11}And
they
offer holocausts
to
the
Lord,
every
day,
morning
and
evening,
and
incense made
according
to
the ordinance
of
the law,
and
the
leaves
are set forth
on
a most
clean
table,
and
there
is
with
us
the
golden candlestick,
and
the
lamps thereof,
to
be lighted always
in
the
evening:
for
we
keep
the precepts
of
the
Lord
our
God, whom
you
have forsaken.
\VS{12}Therefore
God
is
the
leader
in
our army,
and
his
priests
who
sound
with
trumpets,
and resound
against
you:
O
children
of
Israel,
fight
not
against
the
Lord
the
God
of
your
fathers,
for
it
is
not good
for
you.
\VS{13}While
he spoke these
things,
Jeroboam
caused
an ambushment
to
come
about
behind
him.
And
while
he
stood
facing
the enemies,
he encompassed Juda.
who perceived
it
not,
with
his army.
\VS{14}And
when Juda
looked
back,
they
saw
the
battle
coming upon
them
both
before
and
behind,
and
they
cried
to
the
Lord:
and
the
priests began
to sound
with
the
trumpets.
\VS{15}And
all
the
men
of Juda
shouted:
and behold
when
they
shouted,
God terrified
Jeroboam,
and
all
Israel
that stood
against Abia
and Juda.
\VS{16}And
the
children
of
Israel
fled
before Juda,
and
the Lord
delivered
them
into
their
hand.
\VS{17}And Abia
and
his
people
slew
them
with
a
great
slaughter,
and there
fell
wounded
of
Israel
five
hundred
thousand valiant
men.
\VS{18}And
the
children
of
Israel
were brought
down,
at
that
time,
and
the
children
of Juda
were
exceedingly
strengthened,
because
they
had
trusted
in
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{19}And Abia
pursued
after
Jeroboam,
and
took
cities
from
him,
Bethel
and
her
daughters,
and Jesana
with
her
daughters,
Ephron
also
and
her
daughters.
\VS{20}And
Jeroboam
was
not able
to resist
any
more,
in
the
days
of Abia:
and
the
Lord
struck
him,
and
he
died.
\VS{21}But Abia,
being
strengthened
in
his kingdom,
took
fourteen
wives:
and
begot
two
and
twenty
sons,
and
sixteen
daughters.
\VS{22}And
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Abia,
and
of
his
ways
and works,
are
written diligently
in
the book
of Addo
the
prophet.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Abia slept
with
his fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the city
of David:
and
Asa
his son reigned
in
his stead:
in
his days
the land
was quiet ten years.
\VS{2}And Asa did
that which was good
and pleasing
in
the sight
of
his God,
and
he destroyed
the
altars
of
foreign worship,
and
the
high
places.
\VS{3}And broke
the statues,
and cut down
the groves.
\VS{4}And
he commanded Juda
to seek
the Lord
the God
of
their fathers,
and
to
do
the law,
and
all
the commandments.
\VS{5}And
he took
away out
of all
the
cities
of Juda
the altars,
and temples,
and reigned
in
peace.
\VS{6}He
built
also strong
cities
in Juda,
for
he
was quiet,
and
there
had no wars risen
in
his
time,
the
Lord giving
peace.
\VS{7}And
he said
to Juda:
Let us build
these cities,
and compass
them
with walls,
and fortify
them
with
towers,
and gates,
and bars,
while
all
is quiet
from wars,
because
we
have sought
the Lord
the God
of
our fathers,
and
he hath given us peace round
about.
So
they built,
and
there
was
no hinderance
in building.
\VS{8}And Asa
had
in
his
army
of men
that bore shields
and spears
of Juda
three
hundred
thousand,
and
of Benjamin
that bore shields
and drew bows,
two
hundred
and eighty
thousand,
all these
were most
valiant men.
\VS{9}And Zara
the Ethiopian
came
out
against
them
with
his
army
of ten hundred thousand men,
and
with three hundred chariots:
and
he
came
as far
as Maresa.
\VS{10}And
Asa
went
out
to meet
him,
and
set
his
army
in array
for battle
in
the vale
of Sephata,
which
is
near Maresa:
\VS{11}And
he called upon
the
Lord
God,
and said:
O
Lord,
there
is no difference
with thee, whether thou help
with few,
or
with many: help
us,
O
Lord
our
God:
for
with confidence
in thee,
and
in thy name, we
are come
against
this multitude.
O
Lord thou art
our
God, let not man prevail
against thee.
\VS{12}And
the
Lord
terrified
the
Ethiopians
before
Asa
and Juda:
and
the
Ethiopians fled.
\VS{13}And Asa
and
the people
that
were
with
him pursued
them
to Gerara:
and
the Ethiopians
fell
even
to
utter destruction,
for
the
Lord
slew
them,
and
his army fought
against
them,
and
they
were
destroyed.
And
they
took abundance
of spoils,
\VS{14}And
they
took
all
the cities round
about Gerara:
for
a
great fear
was
come upon
all men:
and
they pillaged
the cities,
and
carried
off
much booty.
\VS{15}And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and took an infinite number of cattle, and of camels: and returned to Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
spirit
of
God
came
upon Azarias
the
son
of
Oded,
\VS{2}And
he
went
out
to
meet
Asa,
and
said
to
him:
Hear ye
me,
Asa,
and
all Juda
and
Benjamin:
The
Lord
is
with
you,
because
you
have
been
with
him.
If
you
seek
him,
you
shall
find:
but
if
you
forsake
him,
he
will
forsake
you.
\VS{3}And
many
days
shall pass
in
Israel
without
the
true
God,
and
without
a
priest
a
teacher,
and
without
the
law.
\VS{4}And
when
in
their
distress
they
shall
return
to
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
and
shall
seek
him,
they
shall
find
him.
\VS{5}At
that
time
there
shall
be
no
peace
to
him
that goeth
out
and cometh
in,
but terrors
on
every
side
among
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth.
\VS{6}For
nation
shall fight
against
nation,
and
city
against
city,
for
the Lord
will
trouble
them
with
all
distress.
\VS{7}Do
you
therefore
take
courage,
and
let
not
your
hands
he weakened:
for
there
shall
be
a
reward
for
your
work.
\VS{8}And
when
Asa
had
heard
the
words,
and
the
prophecy
of Azarias
the son
of
Oded
the
prophet,
he
took
courage,
and
took
away
the
idols
out
of
all
the
land
of Juda,
and
out
of
Benjamin,
and
out
of
the
cities
of
mount
Ephraim,
which
he
had
taken,
and
he dedicated
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
which
was
before
the
porch
of
the
Lord.
\VS{9}And
he
gathered
together
all Juda
and
Benjamin,
and
the strangers
with
them
of
Ephraim,
and Manasses,
and
Simeon:
for
many
were
come
over
to
him
out
of
Israel,
seeing
that
the
Lord
his
God
was
with
him.
\VS{10}And when
they
were come
to
Jerusalem
in
the
third
month,
in
the fifteenth
year
of
the
reign
of
Asa,
\VS{11}They
sacrificed
to
the
Lord
in
that
day
of
the
spoils,
and
of
the prey,
that
they
had
brought,
seven
hundred
oxen,
and
seven
thousand rams.
\VS{12}And
he
went
in
to confirm
as usual
the
covenant,
that
they
should
seek
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers
with
all
their
heart,
and
with
all
their
soul.
\VS{13}And
if
any
one, said
he,
seek
not
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
let
him
die,
whether
little
or
great,
man
or
woman.
\VS{14}And
they
swore
to
the
Lord
with
a
loud
voice
with
joyful
shouting,
and
with
sound
of
trumpet,
and
sound
of comets,
\VS{15}All
that
mere
in Juda
with
a
curse:
for
with
all
their
heart
they
swore,
and
with
all
their
will
they
sought
him,
and
they
found
him,
and
the
Lord
gave
them
rest
round
about.
\VS{16}Moreover Maacha
the
mother
of
king
Asa
he
deposed
from
the
royal authority,
because
she
had
made
in
a grove
an idol
of Priapus:
and
he entirely
destroyed
it,
and breaking
it
into pieces,
burnt
it
at
the torrent Cedron.
\VS{17}But
high
places
were
left
in
Israel: nevertheless
the
heart
of
Asa
was
perfect
all
his
days.
\VS{18}And
the
things
which
his
father
had
vowed,
and
he
himself
had
vowed,
he
brought
into
the
house
of
the Lord,
gold
and
silver,
and
vessels
of divers uses.
\VS{19}And
there
was
no
war unto
the
five
and
thirtieth
year
of
the
kingdom
of
Asa.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
in
the
six
and
thirtieth
year
of
his
kingdom, Baasa
the
king
of
Israel
came
up
against Juda,
and
built
a wall
about Rama,
that
no
one
might safely
go
out
or
come
in
of
the
kingdom
of
Asa.
\VS{2}Then
Asa
brought
out
silver
and
gold
out
of
the
treasures
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
of
the
king’s
treasures,
and
sent
to Benadad
king
of
Syria,
who
dwelt
in
Damascus,
saying:
\VS{3}There
is
a
league
between
me
and thee,
as
there
was
between
my
father
and thy
father, wherefore
I
have
sent thee
silver
and
gold,
that thou mayst
break thy
league
with Baasa
king
of
Israel,
and make
him
depart
from
me.
\VS{4}And
then Benadad
heard
this,
he
sent
the
captains
of
his
armies
against
the
cities
of
Israel:
and
they
took Ahion,
and
Dan,
and Abelmaim,
and
all
the walled
cities
of Nephtali.
\VS{5}And
when Baasa
heard
of
it,
he
left
off
the
building
of Rama,
and interrupted
his
work.
\VS{6}Then
king
Asa
took
all Juda,
and
they
carried
away
from Rama
the
stones,
and
the
timber
that Baasa
had prepared
for
the
building:
and
he
built
with
them Gabaa,
and Maspha.
\VS{7}At
that
time
Hanani
the
prophet
came
to
Asa
king
of Juda,
and
said
to
him:
Because thou hast
had confidence
in
the
king
of
Syria,
and
not
in
the
Lord thy
God,
therefore hath
the
army
of
the
king
of
Syria
escaped
out
of thy
hand.
\VS{8}Were
not
the
Ethiopians,
and
the
Libyans
much
more
numerous
in
chariots,
and
horsemen,
and
an
exceeding
great
multitude:
yet
because thou trustedst
in
the
Lord,
he
delivered
them
into thy
hand?
\VS{9}For
the
eyes
of
the
Lord behold
all
the
earth,
and give
strength
to
those
who
with
a
perfect
heart trust
in
him. Wherefore thou hast
done
foolishly,
and
for
this cause
from
this
time
wars
shall arise
against thee.
\VS{10}And
Asa
was
angry
with
the seer,
and commanded
him
to
be
put
in
prison:
for
he
was greatly
enraged
because
of
this
thing:
and
he
put
to death many
of
the
people
at
that
time.
\VS{11}But
the
works
of
Asa
the
first
and
last
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of Juda
and
Israel.
\VS{12}And
Asa fell
sick
in
the
nine
and
thirtieth
year
of
his
reign,
of
a most violent pain
in
his
feet,
and
yet
in
his
illness
he
did
not
seek
the
Lord,
but
rather trusted
in
the skill
of
physicians.
\VS{13}And
he
slept
with
his
fathers:
and
he
died
in
the
one
and
fortieth
year
of
his
reign.
\VS{14}And
they
buried
him
in
his own sepulchre,
which
he
had
made
for himself
in
the
city
of
David:
and
they
laid
him
on
his
bed
full
of
spices
and odoriferous ointments,
which
were
made
by
the
art
of
the perfumers,
and
they
burnt
them
over
him
with
very
great pomp.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Josaphat
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead,
and grew
strong
against
Israel.
\VS{2}And
he
placed numbers
of
soldiers
in
all
the
fortified
cities
of Juda.
And
he
put
garrisons
in
the
land
of Juda,
and
in
the
cities
of
Ephraim,
which
Asa
his
father
had
taken.
\VS{3}And
the
Lord
was
with Josaphat,
because
he
walked
in
the
first
ways
of
David
his
father:
and trusted
not
in Baalim,
\VS{4}But
in
the
God
of
his
father,
and
walk
in
his
commandments,
and
not according
to
the sins
of
Israel.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord
established
the
kingdom
in
his
hand,
and
all Juda
brought
presents
to Josaphat:
and
he acquired
immense
riches,
and
much
glory.
\VS{6}And
when
his
heart
had
taken
courage
for
the
ways
of
the
Lord,
he
took
away
also
the
high
places
and
the groves
out
of Juda.
\VS{7}And
in
the
third
year
of
his
reign,
he
sent
of
his
princes Benhail,
and Abdias,
and Zacharias,
and Nathanael,
and Micheas,
to
teach
in
the
cities
of Juda:
\VS{8}And
with them
the
Levites, Semeias,
and Nathanias,
and Zabadias,
and Asael,
and Semiramoth,
and
Jonathan,
and Adonias,
and Tobias,
and Thobadonias
Levites,
and
with them Elisama,
and
Joram
priests.
\VS{9}And
they
taught
the
people
in Juda, having
with
them
the
book
of
the
law
of
the
Lord:
and
they
went
about
all
the
cities
of Juda,
and instructed
the
people.
\VS{10}And
the
fear
of
the
Lord
came
upon
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands
that
were
round
about Juda,
and
they durst
not make war
against Josaphat.
\VS{11}The
Philistines
also
brought
presents
to Josaphat,
and
tribute
in
silver,
and
the Arabians
brought
him cattle,
seven
thousand
seven
hundred
rams,
and
as many
he
goats.
\VS{12}And Josaphat
grew,
and
became exceeding great:
and
he
built
in Juda houses
like towers,
and walled
cities.
\VS{13}And
he prepared
many
works
in
the
cities
of Juda:
and
he
had
warriors,
and
valiant
men
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{14}Of
whom
this
is
the number
of
the
houses
and
families
of every
one:
in Juda
captains
of
the
army, Ednas
the
chief,
and
with
him
three
hundred
thousand most
valiant
men.
\VS{15}After
him
Johanan
the
captain,
and
with
him
two
hundred
and
eighty
thousand.
\VS{16}And
after
him
was Amasias
the
son
of Zechri, consecrated
to
the
Lord,
and
with
him
were
two
hundred
thousand
valiant
men.
\VS{17}After
him
was
Eliada
valiant
in battle,
and
with
him
two
hundred
thousand
armed
with
bow
and
shield.
\VS{18}After
him also
was Jozabad,
and
with
him
a
hundred
and
eighty
thousand ready
for
war.
\VS{19}All
these
were
at
the
hand
of
the
king, beside
others,
whom
he
had
put
in
the walled
cities,
in
all Juda.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now Josaphat
was
rich
and very glorious,
and
was joined
by affinity
to Achab.
\VS{2}And
he
went
down
to
him
after
some
years
to
Samaria:
and Achab
at
his
coming killed
sheep
and
oxen
in
abundance
for
him
and
the
people
that
came
with
him:
and
he
persuaded
him
to
go
up
to
Ramoth Galaad.
\VS{3}And Achab
king
of
Israel
said
to Josaphat
king
of Juda: Come
with
me
to
Ramoth Galaad.
And
he
answered
him: Thou art
as
I am,
and
my
people
as thy
people,
and we
will
be
with thee
in
the
war.
\VS{4}And Josaphat
said
to
the
king
of
Israel:
Inquire,
I
beseech thee,
at
present
the
word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}So
the
king
of
Israel
gathered
together
of
the
prophets
four
hundred
men,
and
he
said
to
them:
Shall
we
go
to
Ramoth Galaad
to
fight,
or
shall
we forbear?
But
they
said:
Go
up,
and
God
will
deliver
it
into
the
king’s
hand.
\VS{6}And Josaphat
said:
Is
there
not
here
a
prophet
of
the
Lord,
that we
may
inquire
also
of
him?
\VS{7}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to Josaphat:
There
is
one
man,
of
whom
we
may
ask
the
will
of
the
Lord:
but
I
hate
him,
for
he
never prophesieth
good
to
me,
but
always
evil:
and
it
is Micheas
the
son
of Jemla.
And Josaphat
said:
Speak
not
thus,
O
king.
\VS{8}And
the
king
of
Israel
called
one
of
the
eunuchs,
and
said
to
him:
Call
quickly Micheas
the
son
of Jemla.
\VS{9}Now
the
king
of
Israel,
and Josaphat
king
of Juda,
both
sat
on
their
thrones,
clothed
in
royal
robes,
and
they
sat
in
the
open
court
by
the
gate
of
Samaria,
and
all
the
prophets
prophesied
before
them.
\VS{10}And Sedecias
the
son
of Chanaana
made
him
horns
of
iron,
and
said:
Thus saith
the
Lord:
With
these shalt thou
push
Syria,
till thou
destroy
it.
\VS{11}And
all
the
prophets
prophesied
in
like
manner,
and
said:
Go
up
to
Ramoth Galaad,
and thou shalt
prosper,
and
the
Lord
will
deliver
them
into
the
king’s
hand.
\VS{12}And
the
messenger
that
went
to
call Micheas,
said
to
him:
Behold
the
words
of
all
the
prophets
with
one
mouth
declare
good
to
the
king:
I
beseech thee
therefore
let
not thy
word disagree
with
them,
and
speak thou
also
good
success.
\VS{13}And Micheas
answered
him:
As
the
Lord liveth, whatsoever
my
God
shall
say
to
me,
that
will
I
speak.
\VS{14}So
he
came
to
the
king:
and
the
king
said
to
him: Micheas,
shall
we
go
to
Ramoth Galaad
to
fight,
or forbear?
And
he
answered
him:
Go
up,
for
all
shall
succeed prosperously,
and
the enemies
shall
be
delivered
into
your
hands.
\VS{15}And
the
king
said:
I
adjure thee
again
and
again
to
say
nothing
but
the
truth
to
me,
in
the
name
of
the
Lord.
\VS{16}Then
he
said:
I
saw
all
Israel
scattered
in
the
mountains,
like
sheep
without
a
shepherd:
and
the
Lord
said:
These
have
no
masters:
let
every
man
return
to
his
own
house
in
peace.
\VS{17}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to Josaphat:
Did
I
not
tell thee
that
this man
would
not
prophesy
me
any
good,
but
evil?
\VS{18}Then
he
said:
Hear ye
therefore
the
word
of
the
Lord:
I
saw
the
Lord
sitting
on
his
throne,
and
all
the
army
of
heaven
standing
by
him
on
the
right
hand
and
on
the
left.
\VS{19}And
the
Lord
said:
Who
shall deceive Achab
king
of
Israel,
that
he
may
go
up
and
fall
in
Ramoth Galaad?
And
when
one
spoke
in
this
manner,
and
another otherwise:
\VS{20}There
came
forth
a
spirit,
and
stood
before
the
Lord,
and
said:
I
will deceive
him.
And
the
Lord
said
to
him:
By
what means wilt thou deceive
him?
\VS{21}And
he
answered:
I
will
go
out,
and
be
a
lying
spirit
in
the
mouth
of
all
his
prophets.
And
the Lord
said: Thou shalt deceive,
and shalt
prevail:
go
out,
and
do
so.
\VS{22}Now
therefore
behold
the
Lord hath
put
a
spirit
of
lying
in
the
mouth
of
all thy
prophets,
and
the
Lord hath
spoken
evil
against thee.
\VS{23}And Sedecias
the
son
of Chanaana
came,
and
struck Micheas
on
the
cheek
and
said:
Which
way
went
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
from
me,
to
speak
to thee?
\VS{24}And Micheas
said: Thou thyself shalt
see
in
that
day,
when thou shalt
go
in
from
chamber
to
chamber,
to
hide thyself.
\VS{25}And
the
king
of
Israel
commanded,
saying:
Take Micheas,
and
carry
him
to Amen
the
governor
of
the
city,
and
to Joas
the
son
of Amelech,
\VS{26}And
say:
Thus saith
the
king:
Put
this fellow
in
prison,
and
give
him
bread
and
water
in
a small quantity
till
I
return
in
peace.
\VS{27}And Micheas
said:
If thou
return
in
peace,
the
Lord hath
not
spoken
by
me.
And
he
said:
Hear,
all ye
people.
\VS{28}So
the
king
of
Israel
and Josaphat
king
of Juda
went
up
to
Ramoth Galaad.
\VS{29}And
the
king
of
Israel
said
to Josaphat:
I
will change
my
dress,
and
so
I
will
go
to
the
battle,
but
put thou
on thy own
garments.
And
the
king
of
Israel
having changed
his
dress,
went
to
the
battle.
\VS{30}Now
the
king
of
Syria
had
commanded
the
captains
of
his cavalry,
saying:
Fight ye
not
with
small,
or
great,
but
with
the
king
of
Israel
only.
\VS{31}So
when
the
captains
of
the cavalry
saw Josaphat,
they
said:
This
is
the
king
of
Israel.
And
they
surrounded
him
to
attack
him:
but
he
cried
to
the
Lord,
and
he
helped
him,
and
turned
them
away
from
him.
\VS{32}For
when
the
captains
of
the cavalry
saw,
that
he
was
not
the
king
of
Israel,
they
left
him.
\VS{33}And
it happened
that
one
of
the
people
shot
an arrow
at
a venture,
and
struck
the
king
of
Israel
between
the neck
and
the shoulders,
and
he
said
to
his
chariot
man:
Turn thy
hand,
and
carry
me
out
of
the battle,
for
I am
wounded.
\VS{34}And
the
fight
was ended
that
day:
but
the
king
of
Israel
stood
in
his
chariot
against
the Syrians
until
the
evening,
and
died
at
the
sunset.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Josaphat
king
of Juda
returned
to
his
house
in
peace
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani
the
seer met
him,
and
said
to
him: Thou helpest
the
ungodly,
and thou art joined
in friendship
with
them
that
hate
the
Lord,
and
therefore thou didst deserve
indeed
the
wrath
of
the
Lord:
\VS{3}But
good works
are
found
in thee,
because thou hast
taken
away
the groves
out
of
the
land
of Juda,
and hast
prepared thy
heart
to
seek
the Lord
the
God
of thy fathers.
\VS{4}And Josaphat
dwelt
at
Jerusalem:
and
he
went
out
again
to
the
people
from Bersabee
to
mount
Ephraim,
and
brought
them
back
to
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{5}And
he
set
judges
of
the
land
in
all
the fenced
cities
of Juda,
in
every
place.
\VS{6}And charging
the
judges,
he
said:
Take
heed
what
you
do:
for
you exercise
not
the
judgment
of
man,
but
of
the
Lord:
and whatsoever
you
judge,
it
shall redound
to
you.
\VS{7}Let
the
fear
of
the
Lord
be
with
you,
and
do all
things
with diligence:
for
there
is
no
iniquity
with
the
Lord
our
God,
a
nor
respect
of persons,
nor desire
of
gifts.
\VS{8}In
Jerusalem
also Josaphat
appointed
Levites,
and
priests
and
chiefs
of
the
families
of
Israel,
to
judge
the
judgment
and
the
cause
of
the
Lord
for
the inhabitants thereof.
\VS{9}And
he
charged
them,
saying:
Thus
shall
you
do
in
the
fear
of
the
Lord
faithfully,
and
with
a
perfect
heart.
\VS{10}Every
cause
that
shall
come
to
you
of
your
brethren,
that
dwell
in
their
cities,
between kindred
and kindred, wheresoever
there
is question
concerning
the
law,
the
commandment,
the ceremonies,
the justifications: shew
it
them,
that
they
may
not sin
against
the
Lord,
and
that
wrath
may
not
come
upon
you
and
your
brethren:
and
so
doing
you
shall
not sin.
\VS{11}And Amarias
the
priest
your high
priest shell
be
chief
in
the
things
which
regard
God:
and Zabadias
the
son
of Ismahel,
who
is
ruler
in
the
house
of Juda,
shall
be
over
those
matters
which
belong
to
the
king’s office:
and
you
have
before
you
the
Levites
for
masters,
take
courage
and
do diligently,
and
the
Lord
will
be
with
you
in
good
things.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
this
the
children
of
Moab,
and
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
with
them
of
the
Ammonites,
were gathered
together
to
fight
against Josaphat.
\VS{2}And
there
came
messengers,
and
told Josaphat,
saying:
There cometh
a
great
multitude
against thee
from
beyond
the
sea,
and
out
of
Syria,
and
behold
they
are
in Asasonthamar,
which
is Engaddi.
\VS{3}And Josaphat being seized
with
fear betook
himself
wholly
to
pray
to
the
Lord,
and
he
proclaimed
a
fast
for
all Juda.
\VS{4}And Juda
gathered
themselves
together
to pray
to
the
Lord:
and
all
came
out
of
their
cities
to make supplication
to
him.
\VS{5}And Josaphat
stood
in
the midst
of
the
assembly
of Juda,
and
Jerusalem,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
before
the
new
court,
\VS{6}And
said:
O
Lord
God
of
our
fathers, thou art
God
in
heaven,
and rulest
over
all
the
kingdoms
and
nations,
in thy
hand
is
strength
and
power,
and
no
one
can resist thee.
\VS{7}Didst
not thou
our
God kill
all
the
inhabitants
of
this
land
before thy
people
Israel,
and gavest
it
to
the
seed
of
Abraham thy
friend
for
ever?
\VS{8}And
they
dwelt
in
it,
and
built
in
it
a
sanctuary
to thy
name,
saying:
\VS{9}If evils
fall
upon
us,
the
sword
of
judgment,
or
pestilence,
or
famine,
we
will
stand
in thy
presence
before
this
house,
in
which thy
name
is
called
upon:
and
we
will
cry
to thee
in
our afflictions,
and thou wilt
hear,
and
save
us.
\VS{10}Now
therefore
behold
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
of
Moab,
and
mount
Seir,
through
whose
lands thou didst
not
allow
Israel
to
pass,
when
they
came
out
of
Egypt,
but
they
turned
aside
from
them,
and slew
them
not,
\VS{11}Do
the
contrary,
and endeavour
to
cast
us
out
of
the
possession
which thou hast delivered
to
us.
\VS{12}O
our
God, wilt thou
not
then
judge
them?
as
for
us
we
have
not
strength
enough,
to
be able
to resist
this
multitude,
which cometh violently
upon
us.
But
as
we
know
not
what
to
do,
we
can only turn
our
eyes
to thee.
\VS{13}And
all Juda
stood
before
the
Lord
with
their
little
ones,
and
their
wives,
and
their
children.
\VS{14}And
Jahaziel
the
son
of Zacharias,
the
son
of Banaias,
the
son
of Jehiel,
the
son
of Mathanias,
a
Levite
of
the
sons
of
Asaph,
was
there,
upon whom
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
came
in
the
midst
of
the multitude,
\VS{15}And
he
said:
Attend ye,
all Juda,
and
you
that
dwell
in
Jerusalem,
and thou
king Josaphat:
Thus saith
the
Lord
to
you:
Fear ye
not,
and
be
not
dismayed
at
this
multitude:
for
the
battle
is
not
yours,
but
God’s.
\VS{16}Tomorrow
you
shall
go
down
against
them:
for
they
will
come
up
by
the
ascent named Sis,
and
you
shall
find
them
at
the
head
of
the torrent, which
is
over
against
the
wilderness
of Jeruel.
\VS{17}It
shall
not
be
you
that
shall
fight,
but only
stand
with confidence,
and
you
shall
see
the
help
of
the
Lord
over
you,
O Juda,
and
Jerusalem:
fear ye
not,
nor
be
you
dismayed:
tomorrow
you
shall
go
out
against
them,
and
the
Lord
will
be
with
you.
\VS{18}Then Josaphat,
and Juda,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
fell hat
on
the
ground
before
the
Lord,
and adored
him.
\VS{19}And
the
Levites
of
the
sons
of Caath,
and
of
the
sons
of Core
praised
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
with
a
loud
voice,
on
high.
\VS{20}And
they
rose
early
in
the
morning,
and
went
out
through
the
desert
of Thecua:
and
as
they
were marching, Josaphat
standing
in
the midst
of
them,
said:
Hear
me, ye
men
of Juda,
and all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
believe
in
the
Lord
your
God,
and
you
shall
be
secure:
believe
his
prophets,
and all things
shall
succeed well.
\VS{21}And
he
gave
counsel
to
the
people,
and
appointed
the
singing
men
of
the
Lord,
to
praise
him
by
their companies,
and
to
go
before
the
army,
and
with
one voice
to
say:
Give
glory
to
the
Lord,
for
his
mercy endureth
for
ever.
\VS{22}And
when
they
began
to sing
praises,
the
Lord
turned
their ambushments
upon
themselves,
that
is
to say,
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
of
Moab,
and
of
mount
Seir,
who
were
come
out
to fight
against Juda,
and
they
were slain.
\VS{23}For
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
of
Moab,
rose
up
against
the
inhabitants
of
mount
Seir,
to kill
and
destroy
them:
and
when
they
had made
an
end
of
them,
they turned also
against
one
another,
and
destroyed
one
another.
\VS{24}And
when Juda
came
to
the watch tower,
that looketh
toward
the
desert,
they saw afar
off all
the
country,
for
a
great space, full
of
dead
bodies,
and
that
no
one
was
left
that could
escape death.
\VS{25}Then Josaphat
came,
and
all
the
people
with
him
to
take
away
the
spoils
of
the
dead,
and
they
found
among
the
dead
bodies, stuff
of various
kinds,
and garments,
and most
precious
vessels:
and
they
took
them
for themselves, insomuch
that
they
could
not
carry
all,
nor
in
three
days
take
away
the
spoils,
the
booty
was
so
great.
\VS{26}And
on
the
fourth
day
they
were
assembled
in
the
valley
of
Blessing:
for
there
they
blessed
the
Lord,
and
therefore
they
called
that
place
the
valley
of
Blessing
until
this
day.
\VS{27}And
every
man
of Juda,
and
the inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
returned,
and Josaphat
at
their
head,
into
Jerusalem
with great
joy,
because
the
Lord
had
made
them
rejoice
over
their
enemies.
\VS{28}And
they
came
into
Jerusalem
with psalteries,
and
harps,
and
trumpets
into
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{29}And
the
fear
of
the
Lord
fell
upon
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
lands
when
they
heard
that
the
Lord
had
fought
against
the
enemies
of
Israel.
\VS{30}And
the
kingdom
of Josaphat
was
quiet,
and
God
gave
him
peace
round
about.
\VS{31}And Josaphat
reigned
over Juda,
and
he
was
five
and
thirty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign:
and
he
reigned
five
and
twenty
years
in
Jerusalem:
and
the
name
of
his
mother
was Azuba
the
daughter
of Selahi.
\VS{32}And
he walked
in
the
way
of
his
father
Asa,
and
departed
not
from
it,
doing
the
things
that
were pleasing
before
the
Lord.
\VS{33}But
yet
he
took
not
away
the
high
places,
and
the
people
had
not
yet
turned
their
heart
to
the Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{34}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Josaphat,
first
and
last,
are
written
in
the
words
of
Jehu
the
son
of
Hanani,
which
he digested
into
the
books
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{35}After
these
things Josaphat
king
of Juda
made friendship
with Ochozias
king
of
Israel, whose
works
were very
wicked.
\VS{36}And
he was partner
with
him
in
making
ships,
to go
to Tharsis:
and
they
made
the
ships
in Asiongaber.
\VS{37}And
Eliezer
the
son
of Dodau
of Maresa
prophesied
to Josaphat,
saying:
Because thou hast
made
a league
with Ochozias,
the
Lord hath
destroyed thy
works,
and
the
ships
are
broken,
and
they
could
not go
to Tharsis.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Josaphat
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
was
buried
with
them
in
the
city
of
David:
and
Joram
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{2}And
he
had
brethren
the
sons
of Josaphat, Azarias,
and Jahiel,
and Zacharias,
and Azaria,
and
Michael,
and Saphatias,
all
these
were
the
sons
of Josaphat
king
of Juda.
\VS{3}And
their
father
gave
them
great
gifts
of
silver,
and
of
gold,
and pensions,
with strong
cities
in Juda:
but
the
kingdom
he
gave
to
Joram,
because
he
was
the eldest.
\VS{4}So
Joram
rose
up
over
the
kingdom
of
his
father:
and
when
he
had
established
himself,
he
slew
all
his
brethren
with
the
sword,
and
some
of
the
princes
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Joram
was
two
and
thirty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign:
and
he
reigned
eight
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}And
he walked
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
as
the
house
of Achab
had
done:
for
his
wife
was
a
daughter
of Achab,
and
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord.
\VS{7}But
the
Lord
would
not
destroy
the
house
of
David:
because
of
the
covenant
which
he
had
made
with
him:
and
because
he
had
promised
to
give
a
lamp
to
him,
and
to
his
sons
for ever.
\VS{8}In
those
days
Edom
revolted,
from being subject
to Juda,
and made
themselves
a
king.
\VS{9}And
Joram
went
over
with
his
princes,
and
all
his cavalry
with
him,
and
rose
in
the
night,
and
defeated
the
Edomites
who
had
surrounded
him,
and
all
the
captains
of
his cavalry.
\VS{10}However
Edom
revolted,
from
being
under
the dominion
of Juda unto
this
day:
at
that
time Lobna
also
revolted,
from
being
under
his
hand.
For
he
had forsaken
the
Lord
the
God
of
his
fathers:
\VS{11}Moreover
he
built
also
high
places
in
the cities
of Juda,
and
he
made
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
to
commit fornication,
and Juda
to transgress.
\VS{12}And
there
was
a
letter
brought
him
from Elias
the
prophet,
in
which
it
was written:
Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
David thy
father:
Because thou hast
not
walked
in
the
ways
of Josaphat thy
father
nor
in
the
ways
of
Asa
king
of Juda,
\VS{13}But hast walked
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel,
and hast
made Juda
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
to
commit fornication, imitating
the fornication
of
the
house
of Achab,
moreover
also thou hast
killed thy
brethren,
the
house
of thy
father,
better
men
than thyself,
\VS{14}Behold
the
Lord
will
strike thee
with
a
great
plague,
with
all thy
people,
and thy
children,
and thy
wives,
and
all thy substance.
\VS{15}And thou shalt
be
sick
of
a
very grievous
disease
of thy
bowels,
till thy vital
parts
come
out
by little
and little
every
day.
\VS{16}And
the
Lord
stirred
up
against
Joram
the
spirit
of
the
Philistines,
and
of
the Arabians,
who border
on
the
Ethiopians.
\VS{17}And
they
came
up
into
the land
of Juda,
and wasted
it,
and
they
carried
away
all
the substance
that
was
found
in
the
king’s
house,
his
sons
also,
and
his
wives:
so
that
there
was
no
son
left
him
but Joachaz,
who
was
the
youngest.
\VS{18}And
besides
all
this
the
Lord
struck
him
with
an incurable
disease
in
his
bowels.
\VS{19}And
as
day
came
after
day,
and
time rolled
on,
two
whole
years
passed:
then
after
being wasted
with
a
long consumption,
so
as
to void
his very
bowels,
his
disease ended
with
his
life.
And
he
died
of
a most wretched
illness,
and
the
people
did
not
make
a funeral
for
him according
to
the manner
of
burning,
as
they
had
done
for
his
ancestors.
\VS{20}He
was
two
and
thirty
years
old
when
he
began
his
reign,
and
he
reigned
eight
years
in
Jerusalem.
And
he walked
not rightly,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David:
but
not
in
the sepulchres
of
the
kings.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
made Ochozias
his
youngest
son
king
in
his
place:
for
the rovers
of
the Arabians,
who
had broke
in
upon
the
camp,
had
killed
all
that
were
his elder brothers.
So Ochozias
the
son
of
Joram
king
of Juda
reigned.
\VS{2}Ochozias
was
forty-two
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
one
year
in
Jerusalem,
and
the
name
of
his
mother
was Athalia
the
daughter
of Amri.
\VS{3}He
also
walked
in
the
ways
of
the
house
of Achab:
for
his
mother pushed
him
on
to
do
wickedly.
\VS{4}So
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
as
the
house
of Achab
did:
for
they
were
his counsellors
after
the
death
of
his
father,
to
his
destruction.
\VS{5}And
he
walked
after
their
counsels.
And
he
went
with
Joram
the
son
of Achab
king
of
Israel,
to
fight
against
Hazael
king
of
Syria,
at
Ramoth Galaad:
and
the Syrians
wounded
Joram.
\VS{6}And
he
returned
to
be
healed
in Jezrahel:
for
he received many
wounds
in
the foresaid
battle.
And Ochozias
the
son
of
Joram
king
of Juda,
went
down
to
visit
Joram
the
son
of Achab
in Jezrahel
where
he
lay
sick.
\VS{7}For
it
was
the
will
of
God
against Ochozias
that
he
should
come
to
Joram:
and
when
he
was
come
should
go
out
also
against
Jehu
the
son
of Namsi,
whom
the
Lord
had
anointed
to
destroy
the
house
of Achab.
\VS{8}So
when
Jehu
was rooting
out
the
house
of Achab,
he
found
the
princes
of Juda,
and
the
sons
of
the
brethren
of Ochozias,
who
served
him,
and
he
slew
them.
\VS{9}And
he
sought
for Ochozias
himself,
and
took
him lying
hid
in
Samaria:
and
when
he
was
brought
to
him,
he
killed
him,
and
they
buried
him:
because
he
was
the
son
of Josaphat,
who
had
sought
the
Lord
with
all
his
heart.
And
there
was
no
more hope
that
any
one
should
reign
of
the
race
of Ochozias.
\VS{10}For Athalia
his
mother,
seeing
that
her
son
was
dead,
rose
up,
and
killed
all
the
royal
family
of
the
house
of Joram.
\VS{11}But Josabeth
the
king’s
daughter
took Joas
the
son
of Ochozias,
and
stole
him
from
among
the
king’s
sons
that
were slain.
And
she
hid
him
with
his
nurse
in
a bedchamber:
now Josabeth
that
hid
him,
was
daughter
of
king
Joram,
wife
of
Joiada
the
high
priest,
and
sister
of Ochozias,
and
therefore Athalia
did
not
kill
him.
\VS{12}And
he
was
with
them
hid
in
the
house
of
God
six
years,
during
which Athalia
reigned
over
the
land.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
in
the
seventh
year
Joiada
being
encouraged,
took
the
captains
of
hundreds,
to wit, Azarias
the
son
of
Jeroham,
and Ismahel
the
son
of
Johanan,
and Azarias
the
son
of
Obed,
and Maasias
the
son
of Adaias,
and Elisaphat
the
son
of Zechri:
and
made
a
covenant
with
them.
\VS{2}And
they
went
about Juda,
and
gathered
together
the
Levites
out
of
all
the
cities
of Juda,
and
the
chiefs
of
the
families
of
Israel,
and
they
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
all
the multitude
made
a
covenant
with
the
king
in
the
house
of
God:
and Joiada
said
to
them:
Behold
the
king’s
son
shall
reign,
as
the
Lord hath
said
of
the
sons
of
David.
\VS{4}And
this
is
the
thing
that
you
shall
do:
\VS{5}A
third
part
of
you
that come
to
the sabbath,
of
the priests,
and
of
the Levites,
and
of
the porters,
shall
be
at
the
gates:
and
a
third
part
at
the
king’s
house:
and
a
third
at
the
gate
that
is called
the
Foundation:
but let
all
the rest
of
the
people
be
in
the
courts
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And
let
no
one
come
into
the
house
of
the
Lord,
but
the
priests,
and
they
that
minister
of
the
Levites:
let
them
only
come
in,
because
they
are sanctified:
and
let
all
the rest
of
the
people
keep
the
watches
of
the
Lord.
\VS{7}And
let
the
Levites
be
round
about
the
king,
every
man
with
his
arms; (and
if
any
other
come
into
the
temple,
let
him
be slain;)
and
let
them
be
with
the
king,
both
coming
in,
and
going
out.
\VS{8}So
the
Levites,
and
all Juda
did
according
to
all
that
Joiada
the high
priest bad
commanded:
and
they
took
every
one
his
men
that
were
under
him,
and
that
came
in
by
the course
of
the
sabbath,
with
those
who
had
fulfilled
the
sabbath,
and
were
to
go
out.
For
Joiada
the high
priest permitted
not
the companies
to
depart,
which
were accustomed
to succeed
one
another
every week.
\VS{9}And
Joiada
the
priest
gave
to
the
captains
the
spears,
and
the
shields,
and targets
of
king
David,
which
he
had
dedicated
in
the
house
of
the Lord.
\VS{10}And
he
set
all
the
people
with swords
in
their
hands
from
the
right
side
of
the
temple,
to
the
left
side
of
the
temple,
before
the
altar,
and
the
temple,
round
about
the
king.
\VS{11}And
they
brought
out
the
king’s
son,
and
put
the
crown
upon
him,
and
the
testimony,
and
gave
him
the law
to
hold
in
his
hand,
and
they
made
him
king:
and
Joiada
the high priest
and
his
sons
anointed
him:
and
they
prayed
for
him,
and
said:
God save
the
king.
\VS{12}Now
when Athalia
heard
the
noise
of
the
people
running
and
praising
the
king, she
came
in
to
the
people,
into
the
temple
of
the
Lord.
\VS{13}And
when she
saw
the
king
standing
upon
the step
in
the
entrance,
and
the
princes,
and
the companies
about
him,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoicing,
and sounding
with
trumpets,
and playing
on
instruments
of divers
kinds,
and
the voice
of
those
that
praised, she rent
her
garments,
and
said:
Treason,
treason.
\VS{14}And
Joiada
the high
priest
going
out
to
the
captains,
and
the
chiefs
of
the
army,
said
to
them:
Take
her
forth
without
the precinct
of
the
temple,
and
when
she
is
without
let
her
be
killed
with
the
sword.
For
the
priest
commanded
that
she
should
not
be
killed
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{15}And
they
laid
hold
on
her
by
the neck:
and
when she
was
come
within
the
horse
gate
of
the
palace,
they
killed
her
there.
\VS{16}And
Joiada
made
a
covenant
between himself
and
all
the
people,
and
the
king,
that
they
should
be
the
people
of
the
Lord.
\VS{17}And
all
the
people
went
into
the
house
of
Baal,
and
destroyed
it:
and
they
broke
down
his
altars
and
his idols:
and
they
slew Mathan
the
priest
of
Baal
before
the
altars.
\VS{18}And
Joiada
appointed overseers
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
under
the
hands
of
the
priests,
and
the
Levites,
whom
David
had distributed
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
to
offer holocausts
to
the
Lord,
as
it
is
written
in
the
law
of
Moses,
with
joy
and
singing,
according
to
the disposition
of
David.
\VS{19}He
appointed
also porters
in
the
gates
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
that
none
who
was
unclean
in
any
thing
should
enter
in.
\VS{20}And
he
took
the
captains
of
hundreds,
and
the
most valiant
men,
and
the
chiefs
of
the
people,
and
all
the
people
of
the
land,
and
they
brought
down
the
king
from
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
brought
him
through
the
upper
gate
into
the
king’s
house,
and
set
him
on
the
royal
throne.
\VS{21}And
all
the
people
of
the
land
rejoiced,
and
the
city
was
quiet:
but Athalia
was slain
with
the
sword.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joas
was
seven
years
old
when
he began
to
reign:
and
he
reigned
forty
years
in
Jerusalem:
the
name
of
his
mother
was Sebia
of Bersabee.
\VS{2}And
he
did
that
which
is good
before
the
Lord
all
the
days
of
Joiada
the
priest.
\VS{3}And
Joiada
took
for
him
two
wives,
by whom
he
had
sons
and
daughters.
\VS{4}After
this Joas
had
a
mind
to
repair
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}And
he
assembled
the
priests,
and
the
Levites,
and
said
to
them:
Go
out
to
the
cities
of Juda,
and
gather
of
all
Israel
money
to
repair
the
temple
of
your
God,
from
year
to
year:
and
do
this
with
speed:
but
the
Levites
were negligent.
\VS{6}And
the
king
called
Joiada
the
chief,
and
said
to
him:
Why hast thou
not taken
care
to oblige
the
Levites
to
bring
in
out
of Juda
and
Jerusalem
the money
that
was appointed
by
Moses
the
servant
of
the
Lord
for
all
the multitude
of
Israel
to
bring
into
the
tabernacle
of
the
testimony?
\VS{7}For
that
wicked
woman Athalia,
and
her
children
have
destroyed
the
house
of
God,
and adorned
the
temple
of
Baal
with
all
the
things
that
had
been
dedicated
in
the
temple
of
the
Lord.
\VS{8}And
the
king
commanded,
and
they
made
a
chest:
and
set
it
by
the
gate
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
on
the
outside.
\VS{9}And
they
made
a
proclamation
in Juda
and
Jerusalem,
that every man
should
bring
to
the
Lord
the money which
Moses
the
servant
of
God
appointed
for all
Israel,
in
the
desert.
\VS{10}And
all
the
princes,
and
all
the
people
rejoiced:
and
going
In
they contributed
and
cast
so
much
into
the
chest
of
the Lord,
that
it
was filled.
\VS{11}And
when
it
was
time
to
bring
the
chest
before
the
king
by
the
hands
of
the
Levites, (for
they
saw
there
was
much
money,)
the
king’s
scribe,
and
he whom
the
high
priest
had
appointed
went
in:
and
they
poured
out
the
money
that
was
in
the
chest:
and
they
carried
back
the
chest
to
its
place:
and
thus
they
did
from
day
to
day,
and
there
was
gathered
an
immense
sum
of
money.
\VS{12}And
the
king
and
Joiada
gave
it
to
those
who
were
over
the
works
of
the
house
of
the
Lord:
but
they
hired
with
it
stonecutters,
and artificers
of every
kind
of
work
to
repair
the
house
of
the
Lord:
and
such
as wrought
in
iron
and
brass,
to uphold
what
began
to
be falling.
\VS{13}And
the
workmen
were diligent,
and
the breach
of
the walls
was closed
up
by
their
hands,
and
they
set
up
the
house
of
the Lord
in
its former state,
and
made
it
stand
firm.
\VS{14}And
when
they
had
finished
all
the
works,
they
brought
the
rest
of
the
money
before
the
king
and
Joiada:
and
with
it
were
made
vessels
for
the
temple
for
the ministry,
and
for holocausts
and bowls,
and
other
vessels
of
gold
and
silver:
and holocausts
were
offered
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
continually
all
the
days
of
Joiada.
\VS{15}But
Joiada
grew
old
and
was
full
of
days,
and
died
when
he
was
a
hundred
and
thirty
years
old.
\VS{16}And
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David
among
the
kings,
because
he
had
done
good
to
Israel,
and
to
his
house.
\VS{17}And
after
the
death
of
Joiada,
the
princes
of Juda
went
in,
and worshipped
the
king:
and
he
was soothed
by
their services
and hearkened
to
them.
\VS{18}And
they forsook
the
temple
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers,
and
served groves
and
idols,
and
wrath
came
upon Juda
and
Jerusalem
for
this sin.
\VS{19}And
he
sent
prophets
to
them
to
bring
them
back
to
the
Lord,
and
they
would
not
give
ear
when
they
testified
against
them.
\VS{20}The
spirit
of
God
then
came
upon Zacharias
the
son
of
Joiada
the
priest,
and
he
stood
in
the sight
of
the
people,
and
said
to
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
God:
Why
transgress
you
the
commandment
of
the
Lord
which
will
not
be
for
your good,
and
have forsaken
the
Lord,
to
make
him
forsake
you?
\VS{21}And
they gathered
themselves
together
against
him,
and
stoned
him
at
the
king’s
commandment
in
the
court
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{22}And
king Joas
did
not
remember
the
kindness
that
Joiada
his
father
had
done
to
him,
but
killed
his
son.
And
when
he
died,
he
said:
The
Lord
see,
and
require
it.
\VS{23}And
when
a
year
was
come
about,
the
army
of
Syria
came
up
against
him:
and
they
came
to Juda
and
Jerusalem,
and killed
all
the
princes
of
the
people,
and
they
sent
all
the
spoils
to
the
king
of
Damascus.
\VS{24}And whereas
there
came
a
very
small
number
of
the Syrians,
the
Lord
delivered
into
their
hands
an infinite
multitude,
because
they
had forsaken
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers:
and
on Joas
they executed shameful
judgments.
\VS{25}And departing
they
left
him
in diseases:
and
his
servants rose
up
him,
for revenge
of
the
blood
of
the
son
of
Joiada
the
priest,
and
they
slew
him
in
his
bed,
and
he
died:
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David,
but
not
in
the sepulchres
of
the
kings.
\VS{26}Now
the
men
that
conspired
against
him
were
Zabad
the
son
of Semmaath
an
Ammonitess,
and Jozabad
the
son
of Semarith
a
Moabitess.
\VS{27}And
concerning
his
sons,
and
the sum
of money
which
was gathered
under
him,
and
the repairing
the
house
of
God;
they
are
written
more diligently
in
the
book
of
kings:
and Amasias
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{25}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Amasias
was
five
and
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
nine
and
twenty
years
in
Jerusalem,
the
name
of
his
mother
was Joadan
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
he
did
what
was good
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord:
but
yet
not
with
a
perfect
heart.
\VS{3}And
when
he saw
himself
strengthened
in
his
kingdom,
he
put
to death
the
servants
that
had
slain
the
king
his
father.
\VS{4}But
he slew
not
their
children,
as
it
is
written
in
the
book
of
the
law
of
Moses,
where
the
Lord
commanded,
saying:
The
fathers
shall
not
be slain
for
the
children,
nor
the
children
for
their
fathers,
but
every
man
shall
die
for
his
own
sin.
\VS{5}Amasias therefore
gathered Juda
together,
and
appointed
them
by
families,
and
captains
of
thousands
and
of
hundreds
in
all Juda,
and
Benjamin:
and
he
numbered
them
from
twenty
years
old
and
upwards,
and
found
three
hundred
thousand
young
men
that could
go
out
to
battle,
and could
hold
the
spear
and
shield.
\VS{6}He
hired
also
of
Israel
a
hundred
thousand
valiant
men,
for
a
hundred
talents
of
silver.
\VS{7}But
a
man
of
God
came
to
him,
and
said:
O
king,
let
not
the
army
of
Israel
go
out
with thee,
for
the
Lord
is
not
with
Israel,
and
all
the
children
of
Ephraim:
\VS{8}And
if thou think
that
battles consist
in
the
strength
of
the
army,
God
will
make thee
to
be
overcome
by
the
enemies:
for
it belongeth
to
God
both
to
help,
and
to
put
to flight.
\VS{9}And Amasias
said
to
the
man
of
God:
What
will
then become
of
the
hundred
talents
which
I
have
given
to
the
soldiers
of Israeli
and
the
man
of
God
answered
him:
The
Lord
is rich
enough
to
be able
to
give thee
much
more
than
this.
\VS{10}Then Amasias
separated
the army,
that
came
to
him
out
of
Ephraim,
to
go
home
again:
but
they being
much
enraged
against Juda,
returned
to
their own
country.
\VS{11}And Amasias taking
courage
led forth
his
people,
and went
to
the vale
of saltpits,
and
slew
of
the
children
of
Seir
ten
thousand.
\VS{12}And
other
ten
thousand
men
the
sons
of Juda
took,
and
brought
to
the steep
of
a certain
rock,
and
cast
them
down headlong
from
the
top,
and
they
all
were
broken
to
pieces.
\VS{13}But
that
army
which Amasias
had
sent
back,
that
they should
not
go
with
him
to
battle, spread
themselves
among
the
cities
of Juda,
from
Samaria
to
Beth-horon,
and having
killed
three
thousand
took
away
much
spoil.
\VS{14}But Amasias
after
he
had
slain
the
Edomites,
set
up
the
gods
of
the
children
of
Seir, which
he
had
brought thence,
to
be
his
gods,
and adored
them,
and
burnt
incense
to
them.
\VS{15}Wherefore
the
Lord
being
angry
against Amasias,
sent
a
prophet
to
him,
to
say
to
him:
Why hast thou adored
gods
that
have
not
delivered
their own
people
out
of thy
hand?
\VS{16}And
when
he
spoke
these
things,
he
answered
him: Art thou
the
king’s counsellor?
be quiet, lest
I
kill thee.
And
the
prophet departing,
said:
I
know
that
God
is minded
to
kill thee,
because thou hast
done
this evil,
and
moreover hast
not hearkened
to
my
counsel.
\VS{17}Then Amasias
king
of Juda
taking
very bad
counsel,
sent
to Joas
the
son
of Joachaz
the
son
of
Jehu,
king
of
Israel,
saying:
Come,
let
us
see
one another.
\VS{18}But
he
sent
back
the messengers,
saying:
The thistle
that
is
in Libanus,
sent
to
the
cedar
in Libanus,
saying:
Give thy
daughter
to
my
son
to
wife:
and behold
the
beasts
that
were
in
the wood
of Libanus
passed
by,
and trod
down
the thistle.
\VS{19}Thou hast
said:
I
have
overthrown
Edom,
and
therefore thy
heart
is
lifted
up
with pride:
stay
at
home,
why dost thou
provoke
evil
against thee,
that both thou shouldst
fall
and Juda
with thee.
\VS{20}Amasias would
not hearken
to
him,
because
it
was
the Lord’s
will
that
he
should
be
delivered
into
the
hands
of enemies,
because
of
the
gods
of
Edom.
\VS{21}So Joas
king
of
Israel
went
up,
and
they presented themselves
to
be
seen
by
one another:
and Amasias
king
of Juda
was
in Bethsames
of Juda:
\VS{22}And Juda fell
before
Israel
and
they
fled
to
their dwellings.
\VS{23}And Joas
king
of
Israel
took Amasias
king
of Juda,
the
son
of Joas,
the
son Joachaz,
in Bethsames,
and
brought
him
to
Jerusalem:
and
broke
down
the
walls thereof
from
the
gate
of
Ephraim,
to
the
gate
of
the corner,
four
hundred
cubits.
\VS{24}And
he
took
all
the
gold,
and
silver,
and
all
the
vessels,
that
he
found
in
the
house
of
God,
and
with Obededom,
and
in
the
treasures
of
the
king’s
house, moreover
also
the
sons
of
the
hostages,
he
brought
back
to
Samaria.
\VS{25}And Amasias
the
son
of Joas
king
of Juda
lived,
after
the
death
of Joas
the
son
of Joachaz
king
of
Israel,
fifteen
years.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Amasias,
the
first
and
last,
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of Juda
and
Israel.
\VS{27}And
after
he revolted
from
the
Lord,
they
made
a
conspiracy
against
him
in
Jerusalem.
And
he
fled
into Lachis,
and
they
sent,
and
killed
him
there.
\VS{28}And
they
brought
him back
upon
horses,
and
buried
him
with
his
fathers
in
the
city
of
David.

\par }\Chap{26}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
all
the
people
of Juda
took
his
son Ozias,
who
was
sixteen
years
old,
and
made
him
king
in
the room
of Amasias
his
father.
\VS{2}He
built Ailath,
and
restored
it
to
the dominion
of Juda,
after
that
the
king
slept
with
his
fathers.
\VS{3}Ozias
was
sixteen
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
two
and
fifty
years
in
Jerusalem:
the
name
of
his
mother
was Jechelia
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}And
he
did
that
which
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord, according
to
all
that Amasias
his
father
had
done.
\VS{5}And
he
sought
the
Lord
in
the
days
of Zacharias
that
understood
and
saw
God:
and
as
long
as
he
sought
the
Lord,
he directed
him
in
all
things.
\VS{6}Moreover
he
went
forth
and
fought
against
the
Philistines,
and
broke
down
the
wall
of Geth,
and
the
wall
of Jabnia,
and
the
wall
of Azotus:
and
he
built
towns
in Azotus,
and among
the
Philistines.
\VS{7}And
God
helped
him
against
the
Philistines,
and
against
the Arabians,
that
dwelt
in Gurbaal,
and
against
the Ammonites.
\VS{8}And
the
ammonites
gave
gifts
to Ozias:
and
his
name
was
spread abroad
even
to
the
entrance
of
Egypt
for
his frequent victories.
\VS{9}And Ozias
built
towers
in
Jerusalem
over
the
gate
of
the
corner,
and
over
the
gate
of
the
valley,
and
the rest,
in
the same side
of
the wall,
and
fortified
them.
\VS{10}And
he
built
towers
in
the
wilderness,
and dug
many
cisterns,
for
he
had
much
cattle both
in
the
plains,
and
in
the waste
of
the
desert:
he
had
also vineyards
and dressers
of vines
in
the
mountains,
and
in
Carmel:
for
he
was
a man
that
loved husbandry.
\VS{11}And
the
army
of
his fighting
men,
that
went
out
to
war,
was
under
the
hand
of Jehiel
the
scribe,
and Maasias
the doctor,
and
under
the
hand
of Henanias,
who
was
one
of
the
king’s
captains.
\VS{12}And
the
whole
number
of
the
chiefs
by
the
families
of
valiant
men
were
two
thousand
six
hundred.
\VS{13}And
the whole
army
under
them
three
hundred
and
seven
thousand
five
hundred:
who
were fit
for
war,
and fought
for
the
king
against
the
enemy.
\VS{14}And Ozias
prepared
for
them,
that
is,
for
the
whole
army,
shields,
and
spears,
and
helmets,
and coats
of mail,
and
bows,
and slings
to cast
stones.
\VS{15}And
he
made
in
Jerusalem
engines
of diverse kinds, which
he
placed
in
the
towers,
and
in
the
corners
of
the walls,
to
shoot
arrows,
and
great
stones:
and
his
name
went
forth
far abroad,
for
the Lord
helped
him,
and
had
strengthened
him.
\VS{16}But
when
he
was made
strong,
his
heart
was
lifted
up
to
his
destruction,
and
he neglected
the
Lord
his
God:
and
going
into
the
temple
of
the
Lord,
he
had
a
mind
to
burn
incense
upon
the
altar
of
incense.
\VS{17}And immediately Azarias
the
priest
going
in
after
him,
and
with
him fourscore
priests
of
the
Lord, most
valiant
men,
\VS{18}Withstood
the
king
and
said:
It doth
not
belong
to thee, Ozias,
to
burn
incense
to
the
Lord,
but
to
the
priests,
that
is,
to
the
sons
of
Aaron,
who
are
consecrated
for
this ministry:
go
out
of
the
sanctuary,
do
not despise:
for
this
thing
shall
not
be accounted
to thy
glory
by
the
Lord
God.
\VS{19}And Ozias
was angry,
and holding
in
his
hand
the
censer
to
burn
incense, threatened
the
priests.
And presently
there
rose
a
leprosy
in
his
forehead
before
the
priests,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
at
the
altar
of
incense.
\VS{20}And Azarias
the high
priest,
and
all
the rest
of
the
priests
looked
upon
him,
and
saw
the leprosy
in
his
forehead,
and
they
made haste
to thrust
him
out.
Yea
himself
also
being frightened, hasted
to
go
out,
because
he
had
quickly felt
the stroke
of
the
Lord.
\VS{21}And Ozias
the
king
was
a
leper unto
the
day
of
his
death,
and
he
dwelt
in
a
house apart
being
full
of
the leprosy,
for
which
he
had
been cast
out
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
And Joatham
his
son
governed
the
king’s
house,
and
judged
the
people
of
the
land.
\VS{22}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Ozias
first
and
last
were
written
by Isaias
the
son
of Amos,
the
prophet.
\VS{23}And Ozias
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
field
of
the
royal sepulchres,
because
he
was
a
leper:
and Joatham
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{27}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joatham
was
five
and
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem:
the
name
of
his
mother
was Jerusa
the
daughter
of Sadoc.
\VS{2}And
he
did
that
which
was
right
before
the
Lord,
according
to
all
that Ozias
his
father
had
done,
only
that
he
entered
not
into
the
temple
of
the
Lord,
and
the
people
still transgressed.
\VS{3}He
built
the high
gate
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
on
the
wall
of
Ophel
he
built
much.
\VS{4}Moreover
he
built
cities
in
the
mountains
of Juda,
and castles
and
towers
in
the forests.
\VS{5}Ho
fought
against
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and overcame
them,
and
the
children
of
Ammon
gave
him
at
that
time
a
hundred
talents
of
silver,
and
ten
thousand measures
of
wheat,
and
as many measures
of
barley:
so
much did
the
children
of
Ammon
give
him
in
the
second
and
third
year.
\VS{6}And Joatham
was
strengthened,
because
he
had
his
way
directed
before
the
Lord
his
God.
\VS{7}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Joatham,
and
all
his
wars,
and
his
works,
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of
Israel
and Juda.
\VS{8}He
was
five
and
twenty
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{9}And Joatham
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
David:
and Achaz
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{28}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Achaz
was
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
sixteen
years
in
Jerusalem:
he
did
not
that
which
was
right
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
as
David
his
father
had
done,
\VS{2}But walked
in
the
ways
of
the
kings
of
Israel;
moreover
also
he cast statues
for Baalim.
\VS{3}It
was
he
that
burnt
incense
in
the
valley
of Benennom,
and consecrated
his
sons
in
the
fire according
to
the manner
of
the
nations,
which
the
Lord slew
at
the coming
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{4}He
sacrificed also,
and
burnt
incense
in
the
high
places,
and
on
the
hills,
and
under
every
green
tree.
\VS{5}And
the
Lord
his
God
delivered
him
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Syria,
who
defeated
him,
and
took
a
great booty
out
of
his
kingdom,
and
carried
it
to
Damascus:
he
was
also
delivered
into
the
hands
of
the
king
of
Israel,
who overthrew
him
with
a
great
slaughter.
\VS{6}For Phacee
the
son
of Romelia
slew
of Juda
a
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
in
one
day,
all
valiant
men:
because
they
had forsaken
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{7}At
the
same time Zechri
a
powerful
man
of
Ephraim,
slew Maasias
the
king’s
son,
and Ezricam
the governor
of
his
house,
and Elcana
who
was
next
to
the
king.
\VS{8}And
the
children
of
Israel
carried
away
of
their
brethren
two
hundred
thousand
women, boys,
and girls,
and
an immense
booty:
and
they
brought
it
to
Samaria.
\VS{9}At
that
time
there
was
a
prophet
of
the
Lord
there,
whose
name
was
Oded:
and
he
went
out
to
meet
the
army
that
came
to
Samaria,
and
said
to
them:
Behold
the
Lord
the
God
of
your
fathers
being
angry
with Juda, hath
delivered
them
into
your
hands,
and
you
have butchered
them cruelly,
so
that
your cruelty hath
reached
up
to
heaven.
\VS{10}Moreover
you
have
a
mind
to keep
under
the
children
of Juda
and
Jerusalem
for
your bondmen
and bondwomen, which ought
not
to
be done:
for
you
have sinned
in
this
against
the
Lord
your
God.
\VS{11}But
hear ye
my counsel,
and release
the
captives
that
you
have
brought
of
your
brethren,
because
a great indignation
of
the
Lord hangeth
over
you.
\VS{12}Then
some
of
the
chief
men
of
the
sons
of
Ephraim, Azarias
the
son
of
Johanan, Barachias
the
son
of Mosollamoth, Ezechias
the
son
of Sellum,
and
Amasa
the
son
of Adali,
stood
up
against
them
that
came
from
the
war.
\VS{13}And
they
said
to
them:
You
shall
not
bring
in
the
captives hither, lest
we
sin
against
the
Lord.
Why
will
you
add
to
our
sins,
and heap
up
upon
our former offences?
for
the
sin
is
great,
and
the
fierce
anger
of
the
Lord hangeth
over
Israel.
\VS{14}So
the soldiers
left
the spoils,
and
all
that
they
had taken,
before
the
princes
and
all
the multitude.
\VS{15}And
the
men,
whom
we
mentioned
above,
rose
up
and
took
the
captives,
and
with
the
spoils
clothed
all
them
that
were
naked:
and
when
they
had
clothed
and
shed
them,
and refreshed
them
with meat
and
drink,
and anointed
them
because
of
their labour,
and
had
taken care
of
them,
they
set
such
of
them
as
could
not walk,
and
were
feeble,
upon beasts,
and
brought
them
to
Jericho
the
city
of
palm
trees
to
their
brethren,
and
they
returned
to
Samaria.
\VS{16}At
that
time
king Achaz
sent
to
the
king
of
the Assyrians asking
help.
\VS{17}And
the
Edomites
came
and
slew many
of Juda,
and
took
a great booty.
\VS{18}The
Philistines
also spread themselves
among
the
cities
of
the plains,
and
to
the
south
of Juda:
and
they
took Bethsames,
and Aialon,
and Gaderoth,
and Socho,
and Thamnan,
and Gamzo,
with
their
villages,
and
they
dwelt
in
them.
\VS{19}For
the
Lord
had
humbled Juda
because
of Achaz
the
king
of Juda,
for
he
had stripped
it
of help,
and
had contemned
the
Lord.
\VS{20}And
he
brought,
against
him Thelgathphalnasar
king
of
the Assyrians,
who
also
afflicted
him,
and plundered
him
without
any resistance.
\VS{21}And Achaz stripped
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
house
of
the
kings,
and
of
the
princes,
and
gave gifts
to
the
king
of
the Assyrians,
and
yet
it availed
him
nothing.
\VS{22}Moreover
also
in
the
time
of
his distress
he
increased contempt against
the
Lord:
king Achaz
himself
by
himself,
\VS{23}Sacrificed victims
to
the
gods
of
Damascus
that
struck
him,
and
he
said:
The
gods
of
the
kings
of
Syria
help
them,
and
I
will appease
them
with victims,
and
they
will
help
me; whereas
on
the contrary
they
were
the ruin
of
him,
and
of
all
Israel.
\VS{24}Then Achaz having
taken
away
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
God,
and broken
them,
shut
up
the
doors
of
the
temple
of
God,
and
made himself
altars
in
all
the
corners
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{25}And
in
all
the
cities
of Juda
he
built altars
to
burn frankincense,
and
he
provoked
the
Lord
the
God
of
his
fathers
to wrath.
\VS{26}But
the
rest
of
his
acts,
and
all
his
works
first
and
last
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of Juda
and
Israel.
\VS{27}And Achaz
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him
in
the
city
of
Jerusalem:
for
they
received
him
not
into
the sepulchres
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
And Ezechias
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{29}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now Ezechias began
to
reign,
when
he
was
five
and
twenty
years
old,
and
he
reigned
nine
and
twenty
years
in
Jerusalem:
the
name
of
his
mother
was Abia,
the
daughter
of Zacharias.
\VS{2}And
he
did
that
which
was pleasing
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord, according
to
all
that
David
his
father
had
done.
\VS{3}In
the
first
year
and
month
of
his
reign
he
opened
the
doors
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
repaired
them.
\VS{4}And
he
brought
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
assembled
them
in
the
east
street.
\VS{5}And
he
said
to
them:
Hear
me, ye
Levites,
and
be
sanctified, purify
the
house
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
your
fathers,
and
take
away
all filth
out
of
the
sanctuary.
\VS{6}Our
fathers
have sinned
and
done
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
God, forsaking
him:
they
have
turned
away
their
faces
from
the
tabernacle
of
the
Lord,
and
turned
their
backs.
\VS{7}They
have
shut
up
the
doors
that
were
in tile
porch,
and
put
out
the
lamps.
and
have
not
burnt
incense,
nor
offered holocausts
in
the
sanctuary
of
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{8}Therefore
the
wrath
of
the
Lord hath
been stirred
up
against Juda
and
Jerusalem,
and
he hath
delivered
them
to trouble,
and
to
destruction,
and
to
be hissed
at,
as
you
see
with
your
eyes.
\VS{9}Behold,
our
fathers
are
fallen
by
the
sword,
our
sons,
and
our
daughters,
and
wives
are led
away
captives
for
this wickedness.
\VS{10}Now
therefore
I
have
a
mind
that
we
make
a
covenant
with
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
and
he
will
turn
away
the
wrath
of
his indignation
from
us.
\VS{11}My
sons,
be
not negligent:
the
Lord hath chosen
you
to
stand
before
him,
and
to
minister
to
him,
and
to worship
him,
and
to
burn
incense
to
him.
\VS{12}Then
the
Levites
arose,
Mahath
the
son
of
Amasai,
and
Joel
the
son
of Azarias,
of
the
sons
of Caath:
and
of
the
sons
of
Merari, Cis
the
son
of
Abdi,
and Azarias
the
son
of Jalaleel.
And
of
the
sons
of Gerson,
Joah
the
son
of Zemma,
and
Eden
the
son
of
Joah.
\VS{13}And
of
the
sons
of Elisaphan, Samri,
and Jahiel. Also
of
the
sons
of
Asaph, Zacharias,
and Mathanias.
\VS{14}And
of
the
sons
of
Heman, Jahiel,
and Semei:
and
of
the
sons
of Idithun, Semeias,
and Oziel.
\VS{15}And
they
gathered
together
their
brethren,
and
sanctified
themselves,
and
went
in according
to
the
commandment
of
the
king,
and
the precept
of
the
Lord,
to
purify
the
house
of
God.
\VS{16}And
the
priests
went
into
the
temple
of
the
Lord
to sanctify
it,
and
brought
out
all
the
uncleanness
that
they
found
within
to
the
entrance
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
Levites
took
it
away,
and
carried
it
out
abroad
to
the torrent Cedron.
\VS{17}And
they
began
to cleanse
on
the
first
day
of
the
first
month,
and
on
the
eighth
day
of
the
same
month
they
came
into
the
porch
of
the
temple
of
the
Lord,
and
they
purified
the
temple
in
eight
days,
and
on
the sixteenth
day
of
the
same
month
they
finished what
they
had
begun.
\VS{18}And
they
went
is
to
king Ezechias,
and
said
to
him:
We
have sanctified
all
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
the
altar
of holocaust,
and
the
vessels thereof,
and
the
table
of proposition
with
all
its
vessels,
\VS{19}And
all
the
furniture
of
the temple,
which
king Achaz
in
his
reign
had
defiled, after
his transgression;
and
behold
they
are
all
set forth
before
the
altar
of
the
Lord.
\VS{20}And
king Ezechias
rising
early,
assembled
all
the
rulers
of
the
city,
and
went
up
into
the
house
of
the
Lord:
\VS{21}And
they
offered
together
seven bullocks,
and
seven
rams,
and
seven
lambs,
and
seven
he
goats
for
sin,
for
the
kingdom,
for
the
sanctuary,
for Juda:
and
he
spoke
to
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron,
to
offer
them
upon
the
altar
of
the
Lord.
\VS{22}Therefore
they
killed
the bullocks,
and
the
priests
took
the
blood,
and poured
it upon
the
altar;
they
killed
also
the
rams,
and
their
blood
they poured
also upon
the
altar,
and
they
killed
the
lambs,
and poured
the
blood upon
the
altar.
\VS{23}And
they
brought
the
he
goats
for
sin
before
the
king,
and
the
whole multitude,
and
they
laid
their
hand
upon
them:
\VS{24}And
the
priests immolated
them,
and sprinkled
their
blood
before
the
altar
for
an expiation
of
all
Israel:
for
the
king
had
commanded
that
the holocaust
and
the
sin
offering
should
be
made
for
all
Israel.
\VS{25}And
he
set
the
Levites
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
with
cymbals,
and psalteries,
and
harps
according
to
the regulation
of
David
the
king,
and
of
Gad
the
seer,
and
of
Nathan
the
prophet:
for
it
was
the
commandment
of
the
Lord
by
the
hand
of
his
prophets.
\VS{26}And
the
Levites
stood,
with
the
instruments
of
David,
and
the
priests
with
trumpets.
\VS{27}And Ezechias
commanded
that
they
should
offer holocausts
upon
the
altar:
and
when
the holocausts
were
offered,
they
began
to sing
praises
to
the
Lord,
and
to sound
with
trumpets,
and divers
instruments which
David
the
king
of
Israel
had
prepared.
\VS{28}And
all
the multitude adored,
and
the
singers,
and
the
trumpeters,
were
in
their office
till
the holocaust
was
finished.
\VS{29}And
when
the oblation
was
ended,
the
king,
and
all
that
were
with
him
bowed
down
and adored.
\VS{30}And Ezechias
and
the
princes
commanded
the
Levites
to
praise
the
Lord
with
the
words
of
David,
and
Asaph
the
seer:
and
they
praised
him
with great
joy,
and
bowing
the knee adored.
\VS{31}And Ezechias
added,
and
said:
You
have
filled
your
hands
to
the
Lord,
come
and
offer victims,
and
praises
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
And
all
the multitude offered victims,
and
praises,
and holocausts
with
a devout
mind.
\VS{32}And
the
number
of
the holocausts
which
the multitude offered,
was
seventy bullocks,
a
hundred
rams,
and
two
hundred
lambs.
\VS{33}And
they
consecrated
to
the Lord
six
hundred
oxen,
and
three
thousand
sheep.
\VS{34}But
the
priests
were
few,
and
were
not
enough
to flay
the holocausts: wherefore
the
Levites
their
brethren
helped
them,
till
the
work
was
ended,
and
priests
were
sanctified,
for
the
Levites
are
sanctified
with
an easier rite
than
the
priests.
\VS{35}So
there
were
many holocausts,
and
the
fat
of
peace
offerings,
and
the libations
of holocausts:
and
the
service
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
was completed.
\VS{36}And Ezechias,
and
all
the
people
rejoiced
because
the ministry
of
the Lord
was accomplished.
For
the resolution
of doing
this
thing
was
taken
suddenly.

\par }\Chap{30}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Ezechias
sent
to
all
Israel
and Juda:
and
he
wrote
letters
to
Ephraim
and Manasses,
that
they
should
come
to
the
house
of
the
Lord
in
Jerusalem,
and
keep
the phase
to
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{2}For
the
king, taking
counsel,
and
the
princes,
and
all
the
assembly
of
Jerusalem, decreed
to
keep
the phase
the
second
month.
\VS{3}For
they
could
not
keep
it
in
its
time;
because there
were
not
priests
enough
sanctified,
and
the
people
was
not
as
yet
gathered
together
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{4}And
the
thing
pleased
the
king,
and
all
the
people.
\VS{5}And
they
decreed
to send
messengers
to
all
Israel
from Bersabee
even
to
Dan,
that
they
should
come,
and
keep
the phase
to
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel
in
Jerusalem:
for
many
had
not
kept
it
as
it
is
prescribed
by
the law.
\VS{6}And
the posts
went
with
letters
by
commandment
of
the
king,
and
his
princes,
to
all
Israel
and Juda, proclaiming
according
to
the
king’s
orders: Ye
children
of
Israel,
turn
again
to
the
Lord
the
God
of
Abraham,
and
of
Isaac,
and
of
Israel:
and
he
will
return
to
the
remnant
of
you
that
have
escaped
the
hand
of
the
king
of
the Assyrians.
\VS{7}Be
not
like
your
fathers,
and
brethren,
who departed
from
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers,
and
he hath
given
them
up
to
destruction,
as
you
see.
\VS{8}Harden
not
your
necks,
as
your
fathers
did:
yield
yourselves
to
the
Lord,
and
come
to
his
sanctuary,
which
he hath
sanctified
for
ever:
serve
the
Lord
the
God
of
your
fathers,
and
the
wrath
of
his indignation
shall
be
turned
away
from
you.
\VS{9}For
if
you
turn
again
to
the
Lord:
your
brethren,
and
children
shall find
mercy
before
their masters,
that
have
led
them
away
captive,
and
they
shall
return
into
this
land:
for
the
Lord
your
God
is
merciful,
and
will
not
turn
away
his
face
from
you,
if
you
return
to
him.
\VS{10}So
the posts
went
speedily
from
city
to
city,
through
the
land
of
Ephraim,
and
of Manasses,
even
to Zabulon, whilst
they
laughed
at
them
and
mocked
them.
\VS{11}Nevertheless
some
men
of Aser,
and
of Manasses,
and
of Zabulon, yielding
to
the counsel,
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}But
the
hand
of
God
was
in Juda,
to
give
them
one
heart
to
do
the
word
of
the
Lord,
according
to
the
commandment
of
the
king,
and
of
the
princes.
\VS{13}And
much
people
were
assembled
to
Jerusalem
to
celebrate
the solemnity
of
the
unleavened
bread
in
the
second
month:
\VS{14}And
they
arose
and destroyed
the
altars
that
were
in
Jerusalem,
and
took sway
all
things
in
which
incense
was
burnt
to idols,
and
cast
them
into
the torrent Cedron.
\VS{15}And
they immolated
the phase
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
second
month.
And
the
priests
and
the
Levites being
at length
sanctified offered holocausts
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{16}And
they
stood
in
their
order
according
to
the disposition,
and
law
of
Moses
the
man
of
God:
but
the
priests
received
the
blood which
was
to
be poured
out,
from
the
hands
of
the
Levites,
\VS{17}Because
a
great number
was
not
sanctified:
and
therefore
the
Levites immolated
the phase
for
them
that came
not
in time
to
be
sanctified
to
the
Lord.
\VS{18}For
a
great
part
of
the
people
from
Ephraim,
and Manasses,
and
Issachar,
and Zabulon,
that
had
not
been sanctified,
ate
the phase
otherwise
than
it
is
written:
and Ezechias
prayed
for
them,
saying:
The
Lord
who
is
good
will shew
mercy,
\VS{19}To
all
them,
who
with
their
whole
heart,
seek
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers:
and
will
not impute
it
to
them
that
they
are
not sanctified.
\VS{20}And
the
Lord
heard
him,
and
was merciful
to
the
people.
\VS{21}And
the
children
of
Israel,
that
were
found
at
Jerusalem,
kept
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
seven
days
with
great
joy,
praising
the
Lord
every
day:
the
Levites
also,
and
the
priests,
with
instruments
that agreed
to
their office.
\VS{22}And Ezechias
spoke
to
the
heart
of
all
the
Levites,
that
had
good
understanding
concerning
the
Lord:
and
they
ate
during
the
seven
days
of
the solemnity, immolating victims
of
peace
offerings,
and praising
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{23}And
it pleased
the
whole multitude
to
keep
other
seven
days: which
they
did
with great
joy.
\VS{24}For Ezechias
the
king
of Juda
had given
to
the
multitude
a
thousand bullocks,
and
seven
thousand
sheep:
and
the
princes
had given
the people
a
thousand bullocks,
and
ten
thousand
sheep:
and
a
great
number
of
priests
was
sanctified.
\VS{25}And
all
the multitude
of Juda
with
the
priests
and
Levites,
and
all
the
assembly,
that
came
out
of
Israel;
and
the proselytes
of
the
land
of
Israel,
and
that
dwelt
in Juda
were
full
of
joy.
\VS{26}And
there
was
a
great solemnity
in
Jerusalem,
such
as
had
not
been
in
that city
since
the
time
of
Solomon
the
son
of
David
king
of
Israel.
\VS{27}And
the
priests
and
the
Levites
rose
up
and
blessed
the
people:
and
their
voice
was
heard:
and
their
prayer
came
to
the
holy
dwelling
place
of
heaven.

\par }\Chap{31}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
these
things
had
been duly celebrated,
all
Israel
that
were
found
in
the
cities
of Juda,
went
out,
and
they
broke
the idols,
and
cut
down
the
groves.
demolished
the
high
places,
and
destroyed
the
altars,
not
only
out
of
all Juda
and
Benjamin,
but
out
of
Ephraim
also
and Manasses,
till
they
had utterly
destroyed
them:
then
all
the
children
of
Israel
returned
to
their
possessions
and
cities.
\VS{2}And Ezechias
appointed
companies
of
the
priests,
and
the
Levites,
by
their courses,
every
man
in
his
own
office,
to wit,
both
of
the
priests,
and
of
the
Levites,
for holocausts,
and
for
peace
offerings,
to
minister,
and
to
praise,
and
to sing
in
the
gates
of
the
camp
of
the
Lord.
\VS{3}And
the
king’s
part
was,
that
of
his proper substance
the holocaust
should
be offered always
morning
and
evening,
and
on
the
sabbaths,
and
the
new
moons
and
the other solemnities,
as
it
is
written
in
the
law
of Moses.
\VS{4}He
commanded
also
the
people
that
dwelt
in
Jerusalem,
to
give
to
the
priests,
and
the
Levites
their
portion,
that
they
might attend
to
the
law
of
the
Lord.
\VS{5}Which
when
it
was noised
abroad
in
the ears
of
the
people,
the
children
of
Israel offered
in
abundance
the firstfruits
of corn,
wine,
and
oil,
and
honey:
and
brought
the
tithe
of
all
things
which
the
ground bringeth
forth.
\VS{6}Moreover
the
children
of
Israel
and Juda,
that
dwelt
in
the
cities
of Juda,
brought
in
the
tithes
of
oxen,
and
sheep,
and
the
tithes
of
holy
things, which
they
had vowed
to
the
Lord
their
God:
and carrying
them
all,
made many
heaps.
\VS{7}In
the
third
month
they
began
to
lay
the
foundations
of
the
heaps,
and
in
the
seventh
month,
they
finished
them.
\VS{8}And
when Ezechias
and
his
princes
came
in,
they
saw
the
heaps,
and
they
blessed
the
Lord
and
the
people
of
Israel.
\VS{9}And Ezechias
asked
the
priests
and
the
Levites, why
the
heaps lay
so.
\VS{10}Azarias
the
chief
priest
of
the race
of Sadoc
answered
him,
saying:
Since
the firstfruits
began
to
be
offered
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
we
have
eaten,
and
have
been
filled,
and
abundance
is
left,
because
the
Lord hath
blessed
his
people:
and
of
that
which
is
left
is
this
great store
which thou seest.
\VS{11}Then Ezechias
commanded
to
prepare storehouses
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
And
when
they
had
done
so,
\VS{12}They
brought
in
faithfully
both
the firstfruits,
and
the
tithes,
and all
they
had vowed.
And
the overseer
of
them
was Chonenias
the
Levite,
and Semei
his
brother
was
the
second,
\VS{13}And after
him
Jehiel,
and Azarias,
and
Nahath,
and Asael,
and
Jerimoth,
and
Jozabad,
and
Eliel,
and Jesmachias,
and
Mahath,
and Banaias,
overseers
under
the
hand
of Chonenias,
and Semei
his
brother,
by
the commandment
of Ezechias
the
king,
and Azarias
the high priest
of
the
house
of
God,
to whom all
things appertained.
\VS{14}But Core
the
son
of Jemna
the
Levite,
the porter
of
the
east gate,
was overseer
of
the
things which
were
freely
offered
to
the
Lord,
and
of
the firstfruits
and
the
things
dedicated
for
the
holy
of
holies.
\VS{15}And
under
his
charge
were
Eden,
and Benjamin, Jesue,
and Semeias,
and Amarias,
and Sechenias,
in
the
cities
of
the
priests,
to
distribute
faithfully
portions
to
their
brethren,
both
little
and
great:
\VS{16}Besides
the
males
from
three
years
old
and
upward,
to
all
that
went
into
the
temple
of
the
Lord,
and
whatsoever
there
was
need
of
in
the
ministry,
and
their
offices according
to
their courses,
day
by
day.
\VS{17}To
the
priests
by
their
families,
and
to
the
Levites
from
the
twentieth
year
and
upward,
by
their classes
and companies.
\VS{18}And
to
all
the multitude,
both
to
their
wives,
and
to
their
children
of
both sexes, victuals
were given
faithfully
out
of
the
things
that
had
been
sanctified.
\VS{19}Also
of
the
sons
of
Aaron
who
were
in
the
fields
and
in
the suburbs
of
each
city,
there
were
men
appointed,
to
distribute
portions
to
all
the
males,
among
the
priests
and
the
Levites.
\VS{20}So Ezechias
did
all
things,
which
we
have said
in
all Juda,
and wrought
that
which
was
good;
and
right,
and
truth,
before
the
Lord
his
God,
\VS{21}In
all
the
service
of
the
ministry
of
the
house
of
the Lord according
to
the
law
and
the ceremonies, desiring
to
seek
his
God
with
all
his
heart,
and
he
did
it
and prospered,

\par }\Chap{32}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
these
things,
and
this
truth,
Sennacherib
king
of
the Assyrians
came
and
entered
into Juda,
and besieged
the fenced
cities, desiring
to
take
them.
\VS{2}And
when Ezechias
saw
that
Sennacherib
was
come,
and
that
the
whole force
of
the
war
was turning
against
Jerusalem,
\VS{3}He
took
counsel
with
the
princes,
and
the most
valiant
men,
to
stop
up
the
heads
of
the springs,
that
were without
the
city:
and
as
they
were all
of
this mind,
\VS{4}He
gathered
together
a
very
great multitude,
and
they
stopped
up
all
the
springs,
and
the
brook,
that ran
through
the
midst
of
the
land,
saying: Lest
the
kings
of
the Assyrians
should
come,
and
And abundance
of
water.
\VS{5}He
built
up
also
with
great diligence
all
the
wall
that
had
been
broken
down,
and
built
towers
upon
it,
and
another
wall without:
and
he
repaired Mello
in
the
city
of
David,
and
made
all sorts
of arms
and
shields:
\VS{6}And
he
appointed
captains
of
the
soldiers
of
the
army:
and
he
called
them all
together
in
the
street
of
the
gate
of
the
city,
and
spoke
to
their
heart,
saying:
\VS{7}Behave
like
men,
and
take
courage:
be
not
afraid
nor
dismayed
for
the
king
of
the Assyrians,
nor
for
all
the
multitude
that
is
with
him:
for
there
are
many
more
with
us
than
with
him.
\VS{8}For
with
him
is
an
arm
of
flesh:
with
us
the
Lord
our
God,
who
is
our
helper,
and fighteth
for
us.
And
the
people
were encouraged
with
these
words
of Ezechias
king
of Juda.
\VS{9}After
this,
Sennacherib
king
of
the Assyrians
sent
his
servants
to
Jerusalem, (for
he
with
all
his
army
was
besieging Lachis,)
to Ezechias
king
of Juda,
and
to
all
the
people
that
were
in
the
city,
saying:
\VS{10}Thus saith
Sennacherib
king
of
the Assyrians:
In whom
do
you
trust,
that
you
sit
still
besieged
in
Jerusalem?
\VS{11}Doth
not Ezechias deceive
you,
to
give
you
up
to
die
by
hunger
and
thirst, affirming
that
the
Lord
your
God
shall
deliver
you
from
the
hand
of
the
king
of
the Assyrians?
\VS{12}Is
it
not
this
same Ezechias,
that hath destroyed
his
high
places,
and
his
altars,
and
commanded Juda
and
Jerusalem,
saying:
You
shall
worship
before
one
altar,
and
upon
it
you
shall
burn
incense?
\VS{13}Know
you
not
what
I
and
my
fathers
have
done
to
all
the
people
of
the
lands?
have
the
gods
of
any
nations
and
lands
been
able
to
deliver
their
country
out
of
my
hand?
\VS{14}Who
is
there
among
all
the
gods
of
the
nations,
which
my
fathers
have destroyed,
that
could
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand,
that
your
God
should
be
able
to
deliver
you
out
of
this
hand?
\VS{15}Therefore
let
not Ezechias
deceive
you,
nor delude
you
with
a vain persuasion,
and
do
not
believe
him.
For
if
no
god
of
all
the
nations
and
kingdoms,
could
deliver
his
people
out
of
my
hand,
and
out
of
the
hand
of
my
fathers, consequently
neither
shall
your
God
be
able
to
deliver
you
out
of
my
hand.
\VS{16}And many
other things
did
his
servants
speak
against
the
Lord
God,
and
against Ezechias
his
servant.
\VS{17}He
wrote
also
letters full
of blasphemy
against
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
and
he
spoke
against
him:
As
the
gods
of other
nations
could
not
deliver
their
people
out
of
my
hand,
so
neither
can
the
God
of Ezechias
deliver
his
people
out
of
this
hand.
\VS{18}Moreover
he
cried
out
with
a
loud
voice,
in
the Jews’ tongue,
to
the
people
that sat
on
the
walls
of
Jerusalem,
that
he
might frighten
them,
and
take
the
city.
\VS{19}And
he
spoke
against
the
God
of
Jerusalem,
as
against
the
gods
of
the
people
of
the
earth,
the
works
of
the
hands
of
men.
\VS{20}And Ezechias
the
king,
and Isaias
the
prophet
the
son
of Amos,
prayed
against
this blasphemy,
and
cried
out
to
heaven.
\VS{21}And
the
Lord
sent
an
angel
who
cut
off
all
the stout
men
and
the
warriors,
and
the
captains
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
the Assyrians:
and
he
returned
with disgrace
into
his
own
country.
And
when
he
was
come
into
the
house
of
his
god,
his sons
that
came
out
of
his
bowels, slew
him
with
the
sword.
\VS{22}And
the
Lord
saved Ezechias
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
out
of
the
hand
of
Sennacherib
king
of
the Assyrians,
and
out
of
the
hand
of
all,
and
gave
them treasures
on
every
side.
\VS{23}Many
also
brought victims,
and
sacrifices
to
the
Lord
to
Jerusalem,
and
presents
to Ezechias
king
of Juda:
and
he
was magnified thenceforth
in
the
sight
of
all
nations.
\VS{24}In
those
days Ezechias
was
sick
even
to
death,
and
he
prayed
to
the
Lord:
and
he heard
him,
and
gave
him
a
sign.
\VS{25}But
he
did
not
render
again
according
to
the
benefits which
he
had
received,
for
his
heart
was lifted
up:
and
wrath
was enkindled
against
him,
and
against Juda
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{26}And
he
humbled
himself afterwards,
because
his
heart
had
been
lifted
up,
both
he
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem:
and
therefore
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
came
not
upon
them
in
the
days
of Ezechias.
\VS{27}And Ezechias
was
rich,
and
very glorious,
and
he gathered himself
great
treasures
of
silver
and
of
gold,
and
of
precious
stones,
of
spices,
and
of arms,
of
all
kinds,
and
of
vessels
of
great
price.
\VS{28}Storehouses also
of corn,
of
wine,
and
of
oil,
and
stalls
for
all
beasts,
and folds
for
cattle.
\VS{29}And
he
built himself
cities:
for
he
had
flocks
of
sheep,
and
herds without
number,
for
the Lord
had
given
him
very
much substance.
\VS{30}This
same Ezechias
was,
he
that
stopped
the
upper source
of
the
waters
of
Gihon,
and turned
them
away
underneath toward
the
west
of
the
city
of
David:
in ail
his
works
he
did prosperously
what
he
would.
\VS{31}But
yet
in
the embassy
of
the
princes
of
Babylon,
that
were
sent
to
him,
to
inquire
of
the
wonder
that
had
happened
upon
the
earth,
God
left
him
that
he
might
be
tempted,
and
all
things
might
be
made
known
that
were
in
his
heart.
\VS{32}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Ezechias,
and
of
his mercies
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of Juda
and
Israel.
\VS{33}And Ezechias
slept
with
his
fathers,
and
they
buried
him above
the sepulchres
of
the
sons
of
David:
and
all Juda,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
celebrated
his funeral:
and Manasses
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{33}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Manasses
was
twelve
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
fifty-five
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
he
did
evil
before
the
Lord, according
to all
the
abominations
of
the
nations,
which
the
Lord
cast
out
before
the
children
of
Israel:
\VS{3}And
he
turned,
and
built
again
the
high
places
which Ezechias
his
father
had
destroyed:
and
he
built
altars
to Baalim,
and
made groves,
and
he adored
all
the
host
of
heaven,
and worshipped
them.
\VS{4}He
built
also
altars
in
the
house
of
the
Lord, whereof
the
Lord
had
said:
In
Jerusalem
shall
my
name
be
for
ever.
\VS{5}And
he
built
them
for
all
the
host
of
heaven
in
the
two courts
of
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{6}And
he
made
his
sons
to
pass
through
the
fire
in
the
valley
of Benennom:
he
observed dreams, followed divinations,
gave
himself
up
to magic arts,
had
with
him magicians,
and enchanters:
and
he wrought
many evils
before
the
Lord,
to
provoke
him
to
anger.
\VS{7}He
set
also
a
graven,
and
a molten
statue
in
the
house
of
God,
of
which
God
had
said
to
David,
and
to
Solomon
his
son:
In
this
house,
and
in
Jerusalem,
which
I
have chosen
out
of
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
will
I
put
my
name
for
ever.
\VS{8}And
I
will
not
make
the
foot
of
Israel
to
be
removed
out
of
the
land
which
I
have
delivered
to
their
fathers:
yet
so
if
they
will
take
heed
to
do
what
I hare
commanded
them,
and
all
the
law,
and
the ceremonies,
and
judgments
by
the
hand
of
Moses.
\VS{9}So Manasses
seduced Juda,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
to
do
evil
beyond
all
the
nations,
which
the
Lord
had
destroyed
before
the
face
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{10}And
the
Lord
spoke
to
him,
and
to
his
people,
and
they
would
not hearken.
\VS{11}Therefore
he
brought
upon
them
the
captains
of
the
army
of
the
king
of
the Assyrians:
and
they
took Manasses,
and
carried
him
bound
with
chains
and
fetters
to
Babylon.
\VS{12}And after
that
he
was
in distress
he prayed
to
the
Lord
his
God:
and did penance
exceedingly
before
the
God
of
his
fathers.
\VS{13}And
he
entreated
him,
and besought
him earnestly:
and
he
heard
his
prayer,
and
brought
him
again
to
Jerusalem
into
his
kingdom,
and Manasses
knew
that
the
Lord
was
God.
\VS{14}After
this
he
built
a
wall without
the
city
of
David,
on
the
west
side
of
Gihon
in
the
valley,
from
the
entering
in
of
the
fish
gate
round
about
to
Ophel,
and raised
it
up
to
a
great height:
and
he
appointed
captains
of
the
army
in
all
the fenced
cities
of Juda:
\VS{15}And
he
took
away
the
strange
gods,
and
the
idol
out
of
the
house
of
the
Lord:
the
altars
also
which
he
had
made
in
the
mount
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
in
Jerusalem,
and
he
cast
them
all
out
of
the
city.
\VS{16}And
he repaired
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
and
sacrificed
upon
it victims,
and
peace
offerings,
and
praise:
and
he
commanded Juda
to
serve
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{17}Nevertheless
the
people
still
sacrificed
in
the
high
places
to
the
Lord
their
God.
\VS{18}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Manasses,
and
his
prayer
to
his
God,
and
the
words
of
the
seers
that
spoke
to
him
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel,
are contained
in
the
words
of
the
kings
of
Israel.
\VS{19}His
prayer
also,
and
his being heard,
and
all
his
sins,
and contempt,
and
places
wherein
he
built
high
places,
and
set
up groves,
and statues
before
he
did penance,
are
written
in
the
words
of
Hozai.
\VS{20}And Manasses
slept
with
his
fathers.
and
they
buried
him
in
his
house:
and
his
son Amen
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{21}Amen
was
two
and
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
two
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{22}And
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
as Manasses
his
father
had
done:
and
he
sacrificed
to
all
the
idols
which Manasses
his
father
had
made,
and
served
them.
\VS{23}And
he
did
not
humble
himself
before
the
Lord,
as Manasses
his
father
had
humbled
himself,
but committed far
greater sins.
\VS{24}And
his
servants
conspired
against
him,
and slew
him
in
his own
house.
\VS{25}But
the rest
of
the multitude
of
the
people
slew
them
that
had
killed Amen,
and
made Josias
his
son
king
in
his
stead.

\par }\Chap{34}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Josias
was
eight
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
one
and
thirty
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}And
he
did
that
which
was
right
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and walked
in
the
ways
of
David
his
father:
he declined
not,
neither
to
the
right
hand,
nor
to
the
left.
\VS{3}And
in
the
eighth
year
of
his
reign,
when
he
was
yet
a
boy,
he
began
to
seek
the
God
of
his
father
David:
and
in
the twelfth
year
after
he
began
to
reign,
he
cleansed Juda
and
Jerusalem
from
the
high
places,
and
the groves,
and
the
idols,
and
the
graven
things.
\VS{4}And
they
broke
down
before
him
the
altars
of Baalim,
and
demolished
the
idols
that
had
been
set
upon
them:
and
be
cut
down
the groves
and
the
graven
things,
and
broke
them
in
pieces:
and strewed
the fragments
upon
the
graves
of
them
that
had
sacrificed
to
them.
\VS{5}And
he
burnt
the
bones
of
the
priests
on
the
altars
of
the idols,
and
he
cleansed Juda
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{6}And
in
the
cities
of Manasses,
and
of
Ephraim,
and
of
Simeon,
even
to Nephtali
he demolished
all.
\VS{7}And
when
he
had
destroyed
the
altars,
and
the groves,
and
had
broken
the
idols
in
pieces,
and
had
demolished
all profane temples
throughout
all
the
land
of
Israel,
he
returned
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{8}Now
in
the
eighteenth
year
of
his
reign,
when
he
had
cleansed
the
land,
and
the
temple
of
the
Lord,
he
sent Saphan
the
son
of Eselias,
and Maasias
the
governor
of
the
city, Joha
the
son
of Joachaz
the
recorder,
to
repair
the
house
of
the
Lord
his
God.
\VS{9}And
they
came
to Helcias
the
high
priest:
and
received
of
him
the
money
which
had
been
brought
into
the
house
of
the Lord,
and
which
the
Levites
and porters
had
gathered
together
from Manasses,
and
Ephraim,
and
all
the
remnant
of
Israel,
and
from
all Juda,
and
Benjamin,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
\VS{10}Which
they
delivered
into
the
hands
of
them
that
were
over
the
workmen
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
to
repair
the
temple,
and mend
all
that
was weak.
\VS{11}But
they
gave
it
to
the artificers,
and
to
the
masons,
to
buy
stones
out
of
the quarries,
and
timber
for
the
couplings
of
the
building,
and
to rafter
the
houses,
which
the
kings
of Juda
had
destroyed.
\VS{12}And
they
did
all
faithfully. Now
the
overseers
of
the
workmen
were
Jahath
and Abdias
of
the
sons
of
Merari, Zacharias
and Mosollam
of
the
sons
of Caath,
who hastened
the
work:
all
Levites
skillful
to play
on
instruments.
\VS{13}But
over
them
that
carried burdens
for divers uses,
were
scribes,
and masters
of
the
number
of
the
Levites,
and porters.
\VS{14}Now
when
they
carried
out
the
money
that
had
been
brought
into
the
temple
of
the
Lord, Helcias
the
priest
found
the
book
of
the
law
of
the
Lord,
by
the
hand
of
Moses.
\VS{15}And
he
said
to Saphan
the
scribe:
I
have
found
the
book
of
the
law
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
and
he
delivered
it
to
him.
\VS{16}But
he
carried
the
book
to
the
king,
and
told
him,
saying: Lo,
all
that thou hast
committed
to thy
servants,
is
accomplished.
\VS{17}They
have
gathered
together
the
silver
that
was
found
in
the
house
of
the
Lord:
and
it
is
given
to
the
overseers
of
the artificers,
and
of
the
workmen,
for divers
works.
\VS{18}Moreover Helcias
the
priest
gave
me
this
book.
And
he
read
it
before
the
king.
\VS{19}And
when
he
had
heard
the
words
of
the
law,
he rent
his
garments:
\VS{20}And
he
commanded Helcias,
and Ahicam
the
son
of Saphan,
and
Abdon
the
son
of Micha,
and Saphan
the
scribe,
and Asaa
the
king’s
servant,
saying:
\VS{21}Go,
and pray
to
the
Lord
for
me,
and
for
the
remnant
of
Israel,
and Juda,
concerning
all
the
words
of
this
book,
which
is
found:
for
the
great
wrath
of
the
Lord hath fallen
upon
us,
because
our
fathers
have
not
kept
the
words
of
the
Lord,
to
do
all
things
that
are
written
in
this
book.
\VS{22}And Helcias
and
they
that
were sent
with
him
by
the
king,
went
to Olda
the
prophetess,
the
wife
of Sellum
the
son
of Thecuath,
the
son
of Hasra
keeper
of
the wardrobe:
who
dwelt
in
Jerusalem
in
the
Second
part:
and
they
spoke
to
her
the words
above mentioned.
\VS{23}And
she
answered
them:
Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
Tell
the
man
that
sent
you
to
me:
\VS{24}Thus saith
the
Lord:
Behold
I
will
bring evils
upon
this
place,
and
upon
the
inhabitants thereof,
and
all
the
curses
that
are
written
in
this
book
which
they
read
before
the
king
of Juda.
\VS{25}Because
they
have forsaken
me,
and
have sacrificed
to strange
gods,
to
provoke
me
to
wrath
with
all
the
works
of
their
hands,
therefore
my
wrath
shall fall
upon
this
place,
and
shall
not
be
quenched.
\VS{26}But
as
to
the
king
of Juda
that
sent
you
to beseech
the
Lord,
thus
shall
you
say
to
him:
Thus saith
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel:
Because thou hast
heard
the
words
of
this book,
\VS{27}And thy
heart
was
softened.
and thou hast
humbled thyself
in
the
sight
of
God
for
the
things
that
are
spoken
against
this
place,
and
the
inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
and reverencing
my
face, hast rent thy
garments,
and
wept
before
me:
I
also
have
heard thee, saith
the
Lord.
\VS{28}For
now
I
will
gather thee
to thy
fathers,
and thou shalt
be
brought
to thy
tomb
in
peace:
and thy
eyes
shall
not
see
all
the
evil
that
I
will
bring
upon
this
place,
and
the
inhabitants thereof.
They
therefore
reported
to
the
king
all
that
she
had
said.
\VS{29}And
he called
together
all
the ancients
of Juda
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{30}And
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
Lord,
and
all
the
men
of Juda,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
the
priests
and
the
Levites,
and
all
the
people
from
the least
to
the
greatest.
And
the
king
read
in
their
hearing,
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
all
the
words
of
the
book.
\VS{31}And
standing
up
in
his tribunal,
he
made
a
covenant
before
the
Lord
to walk
after
him,
and
keep
his
commandments,
and
testimonies,
and justifications
with
all
his
heart,
and
with
all
his
soul,
and
to
do
the
things
that
were
written
in
that
book
which
he
had
read.
\VS{32}And
he adjured
all
that
were
found
in
Jerusalem
and
Benjamin
to
do
the
same:
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem
did according
to
the
covenant
of
the Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.
\VS{33}And Josias
took
away
all
the
abominations
out
of
all
the
countries
of
the
children
of
Israel:
and
made
all
that
were
left
in
Israel,
to
serve
the
Lord
their
God.
As
long
as
he
lived
they
departed
not
from
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers.

\par }\Chap{35}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And Josias
kept
a phase
to
the
Lord
in
Jerusalem,
and
it
was sacrificed
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
first
month.
\VS{2}And
he
set
the
priests
in
their
offices,
and exhorted
them
to minister
in
the
house
of
the
Lord.
\VS{3}And
he
spoke
to
the
Levites,
by
whose
instruction
all
Israel
was sanctified
to
the
Lord,
saying:
Put
the
ark
in
the
sanctuary
of
the
temple,
which
Solomon
the
son
of
David
king
of
Israel
built:
for
you
shall
carry
it
no
more:
but minister
now
to
the
Lord
your
God,
and
to
his
people
Israel.
\VS{4}And
prepare yourselves
by
your
houses,
and
families according
to
your courses,
as
David
king
of
Israel commanded,
and
Solomon
his
son hath written.
\VS{5}And
serve ye
in
the
sanctuary
by
the
families
and companies
of
Levi.
\VS{6}And being
sanctified
kill
the phase,
and
prepare
your
brethren,
that
they
may
do
according
to
the
words
which
the
Lord
spoke
by
the
hand
of
Moses.
\VS{7}And Josias gave
to
all
the
people
that
were
found
there
in
the solemnity
of
the phase,
of
lambs
and
of kids
of
the
flocks,
and
of
other small
cattle
thirty
thousand,
and
of
oxen
three
thousand,
all
these
were
of
the
king’s substance.
\VS{8}And
his
princes
willingly
offered what
they
had vowed, both
to
the
people
and
to
the
priests
and
the
Levites. Moreover Helcias,
and Zacharias,
and Jahiel
rulers
of
the
house
of
the Lord,
gave
to
the
priests
to keep
the phase
two
thousand
six
hundred small
cattle,
and
three
hundred
oxen.
\VS{9}And Chonenias,
and Semeias
and Nathanael,
his
brethren,
and Hasabias,
and Jehiel,
and
Jozabad
princes
of
the
Levites, gave
to
the rest
of
the
Levites
to celebrate
the phase
five
thousand small
cattle,
and
five
hundred
oxen.
\VS{10}And
the
ministry
was
prepared,
and
the
priests
stood
in
their
office:
the
Levites
also
in
their companies,
according
to
the
king’s
commandment.
\VS{11}And
the phase
was immolated:
and
the
priests
sprinkled
the blood
with
their
hand,
and
the
Levites flayed
the holocausts:
\VS{12}And
they
separated
them
to
give
them
by
the
houses
and
families
of every
one,
and
to
be
offered
to
the
Lord,
as
it
is
written
in
the
book
of
Moses,
and
with
the
oxen
they
did
in
like
manner.
\VS{13}And
they
roasted
the phase
with
fire,
according
to
that
which
is written
in
the law:
but
the victims
of peace
offerings
they
boiled
in caldrons,
and
kettles,
and
pots,
and
they distributed
them
speedily among
all
the
people.
\VS{14}And
afterwards
they
made
ready
for
themselves,
and
for
the
priests:
for
the
priests
were busied
in
offering
of holocausts
and
the
fat
until
night: wherefore
the
Levites
prepared
for
themselves,
and
for
the
priests
the
sons
of
Aaron last.
\VS{15}And
the
singers
the
sons
of
Asaph stood
in
their
order,
according
to
the
commandment
of
David,
and
Asaph,
and
Heman,
and Idithun
the
prophets
of
the
king:
and
the porters kept guard
at
every
gate,
so
as
not
to
depart
one moment
from
their
service:
and
therefore
their
brethren
the
Levites
prepared meats
for
them.
\VS{16}So
all
the
service
of
the
Lord
was duly
accomplished
that
day,
both
in keeping
the phase,
and
offering holocausts
upon
the
altar
of
the
Lord,
according
to
the
commandment
of
king Josias.
\VS{17}And
the
children
of
Israel
that
were
found
there,
kept
the phase
at
that
time,
and
the
feast
of
unleavened
bread
seven
days.
\VS{18}There
was
no phase
like
to
this
in
Israel,
from
the
days
of
Samuel
the
prophet:
neither
did
any
of
all
the
kings
of
Israel
keep
such
a phase
as Josias
kept,
with
the
priests,
and
the
Levites,
and
all Juda,
and
Israel
that
were
found,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{19}In
the
eighteenth
year
of
the
reign
of Josias
was
this phase
celebrated.
\VS{20}After
that Josias
had repaired
the
temple, Nechao
king
of
Egypt
came
up
to
fight
in Charcamis
by
the
Euphrates:
and Josias
went
out
to
meet
him.
\VS{21}But
he
sent
messengers
to
him,
saying:
What
have
I
to
do
with thee,
O
king
of Juda?
I come
not
against thee
this
day,
but
I
fight
against
another
house,
to
which
God hath
commanded
me
to
go
in haste: forbear
to
do
against
God,
who
is
with
me, lest
he
kill thee.
\VS{22}Josias
would
not
return,
but prepared
to
fight
against
him,
and hearkened
not
to
the
words
of Nechao
from
the
mouth
of
God,
I
but
went
to
fight
in
the field
of Mageddo.
\VS{23}And there
he
was
wounded
by
the
archers,
and
he
said
to
his
servants: Carry
me
out
of
the battle,
for
I am grievously
wounded.
\VS{24}And
they
removed
him
from
the
chariot
into another,
that followed
him
after
the manner
of kings,
and
they
carried
him
away
to
Jerusalem,
and
he
died,
and
was
buried
in
the monument
of
his
fathers,
and
all Juda
and
Jerusalem
mourned
for
him,
\VS{25}Particularly Jeremias:
whose
lamentations
for Josias
all
the
singing
men
and
singing
women repeat unto
this
day,
and
it became
like
a law
in
Israel:
Behold
it
is found
written
in
the
Lamentations.
\VS{26}Now
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Josias
and
of
his mercies, according
to
what
was commanded
by
the
law
of
the
Lord:
\VS{27}And
his
works
first
and
last,
are
written
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of Juda
and
Israel.

\par }\Chap{36}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
people
of
the
land
took Joachaz
the
son
of Josias,
and
made
him
king
instead
of
his
father
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Joachaz
was
three
and
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
three
months
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
the
king
of
Egypt came
to
Jerusalem,
and
deposed
him,
and condemned
the
land
in
a
hundred
talents
of
silver,
and
a
talent
of
gold.
\VS{4}And
he
made
Eliakim
his
brother
king
in
his stead,
over Juda
and
Jerusalem:
and
he
turned
his
name
to Joakim:
but
he
took Joachaz
with
him,
and
carried
him
away
into
Egypt.
\VS{5}Joakim
was
five
and
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem:
and
he
did
evil
before
the
Lord
his
God.
\VS{6}Against
him
came
up Nabuchodonosor
king
of
the Chaldeans,
and led
him
bound
in
chains
into
Babylon.
\VS{7}And
he
carried
also thither
the
vessels
of
the
Lord,
and
put
them
in
his
temple.
\VS{8}But
the
rest
of
the
acts
of Joakim,
and
his
abominations,
which
he wrought,
and
the
things
that
were
found
in
him,
are contained
in
the
book
of
the
kings
of Juda
and
Israel.
And Joachin
his
son
reigned
in
his
stead.
\VS{9}Joachin
was
eight
years
old
when
he began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
three
months
and
ten
days
in
Jerusalem,
and
he
did
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord.
\VS{10}And
at
the
return
of
the
year,
king Nabuchodonosor
sent,
and
brought
him
to
Babylon, carrying
away
at
the
same
time
the
most
precious
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
Lord:
and
he
made Sedecias
his uncle
king
over Juda
and
Jerusalem.
\VS{11}Sedecias
was
one
and
twenty
years
old
when
he began
to
reign:
and
he
reigned
eleven
years
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{12}And
he
did
evil
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
his
God,
and
did
not reverence
the
face
of Jeremias
the
prophet speaking
to
him
from
the
mouth
of
the
Lord.
\VS{13}He
also revolted
from
king Nabuchodonosor,
who
had
made
him
swear
by
God:
and
he
hardened
his
neck
and
his
heart,
from
returning
to
the
Lord
the
God
of
Israel.
\VS{14}Moreover
all
the
chief
of
the
priests,
and
the
people wickedly transgressed according
to
all
the
abominations
of
the
Gentiles:
and
they
defiled
the
house
of
the
Lord,
which
he
had
sanctified
to
himself
in
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}And
the
Lord
the
God
of
their
fathers
sent
to
them,
by
the
hand
of
his
messengers,
rising
early,
and daily admonishing
them:
because
he
spared
his
people
and
his
dwelling
place.
\VS{16}But
they
mocked
the
messengers
of
God,
and
despised
his
words,
and misused
the
prophets,
until
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
arose
against
his
people,
and
there
was
no
remedy.
\VS{17}For
he
brought
upon
them
the
king
of
the
Chaldeans,
and
he
slew
their
young
men
with
the
sword
in
the
house
of
his
sanctuary,
he
had
no
compassion
on
young
man,
or maiden,
old
man
or
even
him
that stooped
for age,
but
he
delivered
them
all
into
his
hands.
\VS{18}And
all
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
the
Lord,
great
and
small,
and
the
treasures
of
the
temple
and
of
the
king,
and
of
the
princes
he
carried
away
to
Babylon.
\VS{19}And
the
enemies
set
fire
to
the
house
of
God,
and
broke
down
the
wall
of
Jerusalem,
burnt
all
the
towers,
and
whatsoever
was
precious
they
destroyed.
\VS{20}Whosoever
escaped
the
sword,
was
led
into
Babylon,
and
there
served
the
king
and
his
sons
till
the
reign
of
the
king
of
Persia.
\VS{21}That
the
word
of
the
Lord
by
the
mouth
of Jeremias
might
be
fulfilled,
and
the
land
might keep
her
sabbaths:
for
all
the
days
of
the
desolation
she kept
a
sabbath,
till
the
seventy
years
were
expired.
\VS{22}But
in
the
first
year
of
Cyrus
king
of
the Persians,
to
fulfill
the
word
of
the
Lord,
which
he
had
spoken
by
the
mouth
of Jeremias,
the
Lord
stirred
up
the
heart
of
Cyrus
king
of
the Persians
who
commanded
it
to
be proclaimed
through
all
his
kingdom,
and
by
writing
also,
saying:
\VS{23}Thus saith
Cyrus
king
of
the Persians:
All
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth hath
the
Lord
the
God
of
heaven
given
to
me,
and
he hath
charged
me
to
build
him
a
house
in
Jerusalem,
which
is
in Judea:
who
is
there
among
you
of
all
his
people?
The
Lord
his
God
be
with
him,
and
let
him
go
up.
\par }